by Chris Black
“Democracy” is on the ballot in 2024.
By “democracy,” Democracy Defenders mean our current system of censoring the internet, deplatforming their opponents through mob violence, civil lawsuits, weaponizing the FBI against their political opponents, ballot harvesting, month long elections, week long vote counts, invoking the 14th Amendment to remove their political opponents from the ballot, indicting their political opponents to send them to prison, etc.
Unsurprisingly, less than a third of Americans now have any confidence in “democracy.”
“WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new low of 28% of U.S. adults are satisfied with the way democracy is working in the country. The current figure is down from the prior low — 35% measured shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by rioters trying to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. …”
It might prove difficult for Joe Biden to rally the 70% of Americans who perceive the current system as illegitimate to “defend democracy” as it is working for them today.