Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Poll: Most Feel Democracy Is Threatened

Ahead of the July Fourth holiday and the country's 249th birthday, three-quarters of Americans say democracy is under serious threat, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.

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"Whether it's Trump, congressional Republicans or congressional Democrats, respondents do not have much confidence in their elected leaders.

Overall, Trump gets just a 43% job approval.

His handling of immigration mirrors his overall rating, and people have even less faith in his handling of foreign policy (41%) or the economy (39%)."

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Yeah, but what a Great Guy he is! Just a wonderful human being, honest as the day is long, and a President that we can be proud of*!!

(*on alternate Tuesdays if he's not hawking his latest overpriced Chinese perfumes and phones and bibles and guitars and.... ad infinitum on Truth Social, betraying Ukraine for Vlad, or destroying democracy)

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-01 10:29 PM

 

So what?

OK, let me take a different approach from my playground retort ...

What can those who are concerned about Democracy in the Country do?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-01 10:43 PM

I think that "poll" is a bunch of B.S.

I think most Americans know the United States isnt a democracy, only liberals believe that because they have been lied to.

This "poll" just seems like something a liberal/democrat would believe.

#3 | Posted by boaz at 2025-07-02 12:17 AM

"I think most Americans know the United States isnt a democracy"

Why did the Senate just vote on BBB if we are not a democracy?

Dude.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-02 12:53 AM

We have (or had) what's called a representative democracy, Major B; a combination of a republic with democratic elements.

www.google.com

Of course, with Trumpers merely extending the Establishment Republican Corporate Family Values of Oligarchy and Militarism, and since politicians now represent Oligarchs First, not the People, we really don't have either a republic or a democracy now.

We have a Fascist state; a far rwing political movement of populist nationalist racist authoritarians led by a Cult Leader who is funded by billionaires.

Just like the Good Ol' original America Firsters who supported Nazism in Germany and the US... so same as now.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-02 01:17 AM

The wannabe fascists have been bleating the "US is not a Democracy" trope to dumb down the rest of the public into accepting fascism, and enough of the public fell for it

#6 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-07-02 10:50 AM

I think most Americans know the United States isnt a democracy,

#3 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Is that what you think.

I just visited three American WWII cemeteries filled with Americans who died in a fight for democracy.

It's no exaggeration to state that you spit on their graves.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-02 11:22 AM

#3 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Let me tell you something about those cemeteries in France, Holland, and Luxembourg.

People still go there to weep over the dead, and most of those are not Americans, but locals still grateful that America helped by them THEIR democracies.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-02 11:26 AM

"three-quarters of Americans say democracy is under serious threat"

Then there's still hope.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-02 11:28 AM

I just visited three American WWII cemeteries filled with Americans

and most of those are not Americans

Posted by Zed

#10 | Posted by freewilly at 2025-07-02 11:48 AM

#3 | Posted by boaz

---- you, idiot. You believe anything Faux "News" pounds down your throat, you unthinking clod.

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-02 11:54 AM

"This "poll" just seems like something a liberal/democrat would believe."

It's very true but, to be fair, Reps cling to every single poll that matches their narrative as well. I've seen you do it on here and others, as well. While it may feel today that liberals have a monopoly on hypocrisy, it takes wise people to understand that that isn't an excuse to be hypocritical. Be better than them, not just like them.

#12 | Posted by humtake at 2025-07-02 12:05 PM

Well, I didn't vote in the last election because I didn't like either candidate, so this poll thing doesn't affect me...
--Far, far too many Americans

Well, I'm still for Trump but I didn't vote for some of the things he is doing...
--MAGA fools with sawdust in their heads

I told you so. I knew this would happen. Now pardon me, I have to go buy a gun...
--Kamala voters

#13 | Posted by catdog at 2025-07-02 12:19 PM

While it may feel today that liberals have a monopoly on hypocrisy.

#12 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

I wonder why a hypocrite would bother critiquing my hypocrisy unless he is a hypocrite having a hypocritical fit.

Stand up for your country, HUMTAKE. I wish I could say that it won't kill you but TRUMP/MAGA has assured that it might.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-02 12:24 PM

SCOTUS: "What's Democracy?"
Trump: "Nothing important."
MAGAts: "Choke me harder, Daddy Trump!"

#15 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-07-02 12:32 PM

"three-quarters of Americans say democracy is under serious threat"

Congratulations, Republicans.
You Built That!

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-02 06:00 PM

Now pardon me, I have to go buy a gun...
--Kamala voters

Interesting since Kamala was going to try and ban weapons.

See, that's how a liberal thinks...

Be thankful for the Republican the option for you to buy the weapon is still there.

#17 | Posted by boaz at 2025-07-02 07:11 PM

We have (or had) what's called a representative democracy, Major B; a combination of a republic with democratic elements.

No, we are a constitutional republic, with democratic traditions at the local level.

You are almost there though.

#18 | Posted by boaz at 2025-07-02 07:15 PM

"No, we are a constitutional republic, with democratic traditions at the local level."

No?

How are you this wrong about such basic stuff?

But take away the No, and your stuck-up bitch attitude, and you're just about right.

We have democracy at the Local, State, and Federal level.

More to the point, being a Republic does not exclude being a Democracy. It's not an either-or. We are in fact both a Republic and a Democracy.

Is your brain really too small to accept these not even barely nuanced details?

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-02 07:29 PM

Interesting since Kamala was going to try and ban weapons.

The same way Obama "tried" for 8 years while you pussies screamed?

Meanwhile, the only ban was from trump. That got thrown out in court.

#20 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-07-02 08:50 PM

You are too fucking stupid to educate Snoofy,

So I give up..

I cant talk to someone who doesnt understand that we are NOT a democracy at the federal level, we send REPRESENTATIVES to vote for us.

Dumbass

#21 | Posted by boaz at 2025-07-02 09:33 PM

"I cant talk to someone who doesnt understand that we are NOT a democracy at the federal level, we send REPRESENTATIVES to vote for us."

Now, you're on to something here, but you're just not broad enough in your understanding of what "democracy" means.

What we have is called "representative democracy." It's still democracy. Democracy has five definitions in the ol' dictionary. Maybe y'all oughta invest in one.

democracy
[dih-mok-ruh-see]
noun
plural democracies
1 government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
2 a state having such a form of government.
The United States and Canada are democracies.
3 a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges.
4 political or social equality; democratic spirit.
5 the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power.
www.dictionary.com

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-02 11:17 PM

So Boaz it really does sound like you actually reject all of those definitions of Democracy.

But I think this is different than splitting hairs.
Instead, you have chosen to stand on principle.

There's something about democracy which you don't like.
So you don't want to acknowledge we are a representative democracy.

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-02 11:20 PM

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