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Is American Democracy Still Working? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/AskUSA@discuss.online
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If a nation reaches the point where millions of its citizens no longer trust the media, elections, courts, universities, police, science, or even each other, is it still one country or just 330 million people sharing the same borders?

We have pro AI vs anti AI

We have free speech vs police speech

We have pro 2A vs gun control

We have white supremacy vs multi-racial coalitions that can’t even agree on LGBT issues.

How are we as a society supposed to create standards to follow like in the past, when so many issues sharply divide us? One side has to win these elections, and one side is gonna go for it and implement their agenda that MILLIONS disagree with. Is that still a democracy? If Americans no longer believe the system is legitimate unless their side wins, has democracy already begun to fail?

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[–] 4 points 3 months ago

many of these things are not a 50/50 split and some are too broad. Most don't care about ai except for the datacenters being in their town or using up natural resources. Most everyone is for free speech until some special snowflake issue of theirs makes them want to have an exception carved out just for them. The problem with gun control is it should be a local thing for specifics. Highly dense areas do not want people walking around with guns but the more isolated homes are the more it makes sense to have on on you. White supremecy is obviously not the view of most people. Our democracy is in crises. Its kinda working but it needs a lot of repair and its unclear if that will happen or if it will bust completely first.

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