Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Is America slipping to autocracy? | TheHill
…In a report issued this year, the United States fell 11 points over the last decade in its ranking of a functioning global democracy — below places on Argentina and Mongolia and on par with Romania and Croatia. The democracy watchdog group Freedom House pointed to gerrymandering and other barriers to voting as "the most corrosive and radicalizing effect on U.S. politics." In the words of Biden, "Our Constitution opens to the words, as trite as it sounds, 'We the people.' It's time we remembered that 'We the people' are the government. You and I. Not some force in a distant capital. Not some powerful force that we have no control over. It's us. It's 'We the people.'"…
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