In the year In an April 2021 paper, four researchers, Samuel Wang of Princeton, Jonathan Servas of Carnegie Mellon, Bernard Groffman of the University of California, and Kina Lipsitz of Queens College, raised a fundamental question about the cause of decay in large problems. In a country with a two-hundred-year commitment to this tradition, the number of voters who support democratic principles is:
In the United States, laws and institutions have not been designed to meet the needs of governance since the 1790s, when voters made whites home owners and 4 million slaves. Moreover, existing norms and institutions may reinforce the background conditions that encourage polarization. The decline of civic life and diversity in America has accelerated the system’s weight loss.
“The loss of what Americans once enjoyed as a rich community life has contributed to the erosion of democracy,” Wang and his colleagues write. Learn to create and tolerate: But in recent years, “the clusters that once gave way to multilateralism in the United States have collapsed.”
The focus of the February 13 podcast is the collapse of democracy from Financial Times columnist and author of The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, Martin Wolff. Wolf said: “Economic change and the act of economic interaction have made many people afraid of losing. They were really afraid that they were in danger of losing.”
At the same time, Wolff said, “The growth of the financial sector and the dominance of the financial sector in governance has simply created incredible opportunities.” Instead of promoting democracy, the market system “created a barren system.” I think there is no doubt.
According to Il Wolff, “left-wing parties felt that the parties had largely abandoned them and were not interested in their issues.”
In a January 2022 analysis of threats to American democracy, two Brookings senior researchers, William Galston and Elaine Kamark, asked, “Is democracy collapsing and threatening our economy?” Citing data from six polls, including Pew, PRRI, Voter Research Group and CNN, the authors write:
Support for political violence in the United States is great. In the year In February 2021, 39% of Republicans, 31% of liberals, and 17% of Democrats agreed that “If elected leaders don’t protect America, the public must act, even when called upon to act.” In November, 30% of Republicans, 30% of Libertarians, and 11% of Democrats agreed that we should use force to save our country.
After the January 6 attack on the Capitol, Galston and Kamarck observed:
Even though constitutional processes prevail and Mr. Trump is no longer president, he and his supporters continue to undermine American democracy by convincing many Americans to trust the election results. Three-quarters of major Republicans They believe that 2020 was a big fraud and that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected president.
Indeed, Galston and Kamarck continue, “The 2020 election exposed the structural flaws in the institutions designed to protect the integrity of the electoral process. The chaos and the constitution are in jeopardy.
