More than half of Americans believe US democracy is in danger: poll
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The study indicated that Democrats and Republicans have entirely different perspectives on the events on January 6, the US Capitol Riots.
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Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021 (Source: REUTERS)
More than half of Americans believe that democracy in the United States is under jeopardy a year after the dramatic events of January 6 at the US Capitol, according to a new Suffolk poll released on Tuesday.
According to the poll results, 83 percent of people are concerned about the future of "US democracy," with 51 percent being very concerned and 32 percent being moderately concerned. This viewpoint is shared by Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike.
However, the study indicated that Democrats and Republicans have entirely different perspectives on the events on January 6, the US Capitol Riots, with 85 percent of Democrats calling the protesters "criminals" and two-thirds of Republicans stating, "They went too far, but they had a purpose."
According to the poll results, nearly 90% of Democrats think the work of the House Committee examining the January 6 events is vital, while nearly 80% of Republicans think it is a waste of time.
Canadian professor: the US could be under right-wing dictator by 2030
A Canadian professor of political science has warned that the United States could be ruled by a right-wing dictatorship by 2030, urging his country to guard against the "collapse of American democracy."
“We mustn’t dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible to imagine,” Thomas Homer-Dixon, Founding Director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, wrote in the Globe and Mail.
“In 2014, the suggestion that Donald Trump would become president would also have struck nearly everyone as absurd. But today we live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes real and the horrible commonplace.”
The author posited scenarios centered on Trump's possible re-election in 2024, such as Republican-controlled state legislatures refusing to accept a Democratic victory.
