Posted on 11/08/2021 7:30:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
If the end of the world came, but nobody told you about it, would you care? Here’s a stunning piece of information that appeared in exactly no American news media, right, left or center. I read about it in Global Times, the Chinese government’s English-language newspaper.
The Pew Research Institute, a respected non-partisan opinion research organization, polled the world’s major countries about American democracy. Only 17% said the U.S. “is a good example for other countries to follow,” while 57% said it used to be. Twenty-three percent said it never was.
It’s troubling that Americans have similar views. Only 19% of Americans think our democracy is a good model for others to follow, while 72% said it used to be 8% said it never was.
On the other hand, a majority had a good opinion of American entertainment products.
As Victor Davis Hanson laments in a fiery new book, America’s elites have degraded the concept of citizenship to the point that “tribalism and globalism are destroying the idea of America.”
Has it really come to this—that four out of five Americans think American democracy has fallen so far that the rest of the world would do well to shun our example?
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
America has morphed into a proto-fascist, statist central-planning crony capitalist empire.
Americans have been temporarily bought off with mountains of debt and printed money.
When that runs it course, there should be a good old fashioned reckoning.
They most certainly are not non-partisan, Pew are definitely Leftist hacks and have shown that over the years.
“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.”
Winston Churchill
Why is republic such an used word? It is quite different than a democracy.
Why is republic such an used word? It is quite different than a democracy.
When the voting majority does not want a representative government the party in power won’t have to cheat in elections.
Secession
F Democracy! I want my Republic back!
you can’t have a ‘democracy’ when the country is full of globalists and marxists...
It’s a constitutional republic folks.
Perfect summation. You can only hold of ‘natural law’ for so long...
We are not a nation of laws.
We are a nation of lawyers.
[Insert standard “U.S. is not a democracy...” reponse here.]
Russia, Germany, Romania, they can have all the democracy they want
They can have a big democracy cakewalk
Right through the middle of Tiananmen Square
And it won’t make a lick of difference
Because we’ve got the bombs, okay?
John Wayne’s not dead, he’s frozen
And as soon as we find a cure for cancer
We’re gonna thaw out the Duke, and he’s gonna be pretty pissed off
You know why?
Have you ever taken a cold shower?
Well, multiply that by fifteen million times
That’s how pissed off the Duke’s gonna be
-Dennis Leary (A__hole)
The article uses the term: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, which I guess means CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
Doesn’t help.
The label is a quibble. Our present situation is broken abd shameful. No one in the world should look at the US today and see us as a model for a proper society.
I would suggest that people who are looking for a model, should dig around for some documents from the late 1700s. Good stuff there. But those documents no longer have much to do with the 21st century USA.
You can thank the public schools, university and college professors and teachers for the U.S. results. They have taught that the US is the root of all evil in the world and have been doing so for decades.
Has it really come to this--that four out of five Americans think American democracy has fallen so far that the rest of the world would do well to shun our example?Wow. Hopefull poll! People actually are aware, or aware enough. That's great news.
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