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"in danger of".... Bless their hearts...

1/3 are fine with fascism and lying about it being democratic.

America isn't failing, it has already failed.

People so fucking unwilling to face reality, for any number of reasons. No one likes to admit that their actions or lack thereof might make them in some way culpable.

The cancer's been in us since Reagan. The Bushes, Clinton, fucking Obama didn't do shit about it because they were profiting from it. Just like they still don't actually care, because they're part of the owner class. They ain't the ones at risk from any of the insanity in the world. Their wealth, status, and privilege protect them.

Trump wasn't the cause of this. He's just the point at which the cancer had metastasized to the point it couldn't be ignored. Maybe we'd have survived if Biden hadn't been such a drizzling, spineless shit of an administration. Radical surgery and treatment might have been able to bring us back from the brink. Weakened, damaged, diminished, but able to recover if we hold to a new way of living.

Trump 2 was us deciding as a nation to be the smoker with COPD and two heart attacks lighting up another smoke.

Biden refusing to make examples of the ringleaders of the Jan 6 coup attempt - the congresscritters, media personalities, and yes fucking Trump himself - sent a message that was heard loud and clear. Treason's okay. If the leaders of the coup had been charged and tried for treason, with all that entails, then maybe it would have caused the cult to wither. Because it's not just the dumb, poor cultists you need to go after, you gotta get the leaders too. Cults can't survive without their leaders.

But maybe if Obama hadn't been such a spineless fucking coward, we wouldn't have been here. Whip your stupid party into shape, run roughshod over any wet pants senator or representative that tries to get in the way of delivering on those promises of aid programs for the people, tell Glitch to pound sand and just bypass Congress entirely and appoint Garland to the SCOTUS if Congress refuses to do its fucking job. Because the failures of neoliberalism set the stage for a fascist populist to take over. People wouldn't buy into that messaging if they were happy.

But there's no coming back from the kinds of damage Trump has done, both domestically and abroad. The damage that piece of shit Musk did with DOGE will be paying dividends for years, let alone what his little Hitler Youths were doing by stealing social security data and selling it off to Palantir.

America's dead. People need to stop being stupid and accept it.

1/3 clearly living too comfortably to notice

It began failing in the ~~late~~ early 1970’s and was sped along by Reagan in the 1980’s.

It has been failing slowly for a long fucking time.

Honestly, Wilson fucked everyone over when he signed the Fed back into existence.

They are right, the democracy in USA is decreasing rapidly and is back at 1960s level now according to the latest V-Dem report

The scale and speed of autocratization under the Trump administration are unprecedented in modern times. Within one year, the USA’s LDI score has declined by 24%; its world rank dropped from 20th to 51st place out of 179 nations

"in danger"?

1 in 1 non-Americans say it already is.

So then strike. En masse. Now. Do it. You know this is the way. The billionaires don't care about boycotts until they actually affect them enough. Stop going to work. March to the capitol. Demand change. Now. Do it.

And on top of this, a dangerous rhetoric I keep seeing/hearing from the Right is that "the left has taught America to hate itself". This is dangerous because any criticism, even those intended to improve the country is considered a "problem". After all, all we need to do is just say America is great, without actually doing anything to make it so.

It's working as intended and was designed to fail the common man.

2 in 3 Americans also say that we're not going to fix this until we do something about those 1in 3 "Americans."

If you ask the fourth American, they'd probably say that US democracy had already failed quite a while ago. If you want evidence if democracy has failed in America, just look at the clown show in its current leadership and have a cursory look at what they are doing and keep doing right now.

It's probably the greatest democracy break in modern history because it's obviously broken, yet like a cowboy running the dog and pony show with the carriage on fire, no one really wants to admit that anything is wrong with this picture or do much about it.

The fact that more and more sources are saying that 'it might fail', 'it's approaching failure' or 'in danger of failing' ... is probably a sign that it has already failed.

NO SHIT

it was bound to fail when only white men straight are allowed to be truly free. everyone else is dealing with the fall out of what they impose upon us.

"Democracy"?

I’d be curious of the definition of failed. I’d say it’s passed there’s a guy parading round mocking pretty much every law, and promoting corruption. I’m curious just what action would constitute its failure.

Once again, a story warning people of an issue that has long come to pass.

Does the other 1 of 3 think it has already failed? Cuz I'm with that dude.

Personally, I think balkanization or civil war are the most likely outcomes. The US has a lot of cruft from generations of oligarchy and the spared leadership from the Confederates. It would require a deep cleaning and reorganization to secure a better future for many states.

Anyhow, I believe that the American Dollar would probably die. If the US balkanizes, we might see a Californian Peso or Pacifican Bills to become a thing. Being anchored to a sinking currency would kill many states, so it would behoove them to separate on the fiscal basis alone.

"Too late for what? The Republic to fall?! It already has, and you just can't see it! There's no justice! No law! No Order! Except for the one that will replace it!

The time of the Jedi has passed! They cannot defeat Sidious... But together, you and I can."