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Yikes, that’s a terrifying mentality for 42 percent of people to have, that’s downright ruinous to any attempts to salvage the democratic system.
True, 42% of the population thinking that way seems scary, but half of them are right.
Part of the problem, eh?
Both sides, eh?
The Democrats never tried to overthrow our democracy, or send tens of thousands of our troops to false wars to make rich people a little bit richer.
That last thing they absolutely did.
Never* denied people access to a healthcare based on their ethnicity or gender, never* banned books, never* tried to make it illegal to express onself, the list goes on.
*after Southern Strategy
I think you'll find that Kennedy is the one that really ramped up the Vietnam war/conflict. He even knew the intervention would fail, but committed more troops anyway. Many southern democrats did indeed try to stop democracy also, during reconstruction. I realize that both of these things are decades or more old, but this goes back to the overconfidence in our group that the article was just describing.
Maybe they should stop having rallies where the crowd spontaneously bursts into chants about how I should be murdered. You know, meet me halfway and stop doing blatantly evil shit.
Maybe it shouldn't be salvaged. It's not as if people have the power under "representative democracy."
Power is held by those who can afford to fund campaign propaganda, not by voters.
We can do better. Maybe try a more direct democracy with recall voted and bounded mandates.
IMO, Trudeau promising election reform then backsliding is a great example. There should have been a consequence.