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American democracy is screwed

Our best hope is a (very unlikely) mass mobilization of voters that favor multiparty democracy

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G. Elliott Morris
Feb 01, 2020
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American democracy is on thin ice. A survey of experts in October of 2019 found that they rated American democracy at about a 70 out of 100, showing broad discomfort with a number of factors they define as essential to modern democracy. Only 41% of them believed that all adult citizens have equal opportunity to vote, for example, and only 26% thought that the government today was effectively limiting the president’s power to its proper Constitutional bounds.

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