{"id":1702239,"date":"2022-10-19T10:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702239"},"modified":"2022-10-19T10:03:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:03:18","slug":"american-democracy-isnt-in-peril-so-long-as-americans-talk-to-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-democracy-isnt-in-peril-so-long-as-americans-talk-to-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"American Democracy Isn\u2019t In Peril \u2014 So Long As Americans Talk To Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerican-democracy-isnt-in-peril-so-long-as-americans-talk-to-each-other%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702239&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>American democracy, we have been told, is in grave peril.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a perspective we hear echoed dozens of time per day in the mainstream media \u2014 if this next election doesn\u2019t go precisely how our hallowed elitists desire, surely tyranny will follow. As one of those sagacious experts, MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid, recently put it on Twitter, \u201cIt\u2019s terrifying how many Americans will choose literal fascism, female serfdom, climate collapse and the reversal of everything from Social Security &#038; Medicare to student loan relief bc they think giving Republicans the power to investigate Hunter Biden will bring down gas prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polls show that this message has filtered down to many Americans, mostly Democrats. According to the latest New York Times\/Sienna poll, fully 11 percent of Democrats say \u201cthe state of our democracy\u201d is the most important problem facing the country, compared with 17 percent who cite the economy and another 17 percent who cite inflation; nine percent of independents feel the same way. More shocking, just 46 percent of Americans say that \u201cAmerica\u2019s political system can still address the nation\u2019s problems,\u201d compared with 48 percent who say that the nation is \u201ctoo divided politically to solve its problems.\u201d And fully 74 percent of likely voters say American democracy is currently under threat.<\/p>\n<p>All of which we should be pretty damned worried about the state of the republic.<\/p>\n<p>And yet when we drill down, we see broad agreement among Americans that their neighbors aren\u2019t their enemies; that our institutions are worth upholding; that the only remedy for our current political ills is to continue to work within the Constitutional system. According to that same poll, just 20 percent of voters say they\u2019ve had a disagreement with family or friends over politics that hurt their relationship; just 14 percent say that someone\u2019s political views \u201ctell you a lot about whether someone is a good person\u201d; just 30 percent say that presidents should violate the laws to pursue \u201cwhat they think is best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just 14 percent of likely voters say we will need to \u201cgo outside the law\u201d to fix our democracy \u2014 16 percent of Democrats, 15 percent of independents, and 9 percent of Republicans. Even among those who say we must \u201cgo outside the law,\u201d just 12 percent say Americans should take up arms or participate in violence \u2014 meaning just 1.7 percent of likely voters advocate civil war. Meanwhile, 84 percent of likely voters say we can fix our democracy without destroying the system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for the media\u2019s favorite Trumpian conspiracy theory, Q-Anon, just 5 percent of likely voters call the theory believable.<\/p>\n<p>So, why precisely are so many Americans worried about the state of democracy? They\u2019re worried that their political opponents will threaten the institutions they cherish \u2013 47 percent of voters declare Donald Trump a \u201cmajor threat to democracy,\u201d and 39 percent declare Joe Biden the same. But shockingly, the institution they blame most for threatening democracy is the mainstream media, with 59 percent of likely voters, including 54 percent of independents, calling the mainstream media a \u201cmajor threat to democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that\u2019s the biggest takeaway from all of this data: that Americans don\u2019t hate each other, but they\u2019re being polarized by a media determined to divide them from one another, whipping up madness where mere concern would suffice. And what\u2019s more, Americans can feel it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All of which means that sanity may reign once again, so long as Americans reconnect with each other rather than believing everything they see on the news.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American democracy, we have been told, is in grave peril. It\u2019s a perspective we hear echoed dozens of time per day in the mainstream media \u2014 if this next election doesn\u2019t go precisely how our hallowed elitists desire, surely tyranny will follow. As one of those sagacious experts, MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid, recently put it on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}