Overseas online review: American democracy "crisis is coming"

Data map: On January 6, 2021, the people who supported Trump conflicted with the police in the parliamentary building.

With the approaching US midterm elections, 11 Republican candidates may refuse to respond to "whether to accept the election results" or refuse to promise to "recognize the defeat." In US politics, candidates admit that defeat and congratulate their opponents are regular operations, and now this "tradition" that has continued for more than 200 years has been impacted. As the New York Times column writer David Leonhart said, the "crisis is coming" in American democracy.

In 2020, former President Trump still refused to recognize his defeat on the grounds that "the election results were stolen", and more and more people within the Republican Party began to imitate Trump's move. In this year's midterm election, many "election suspects" won the primary election of the Republican Party, making US media and society worry that once the election is defeated and refused to acknowledge the defeat, it will further exacerbate the social turmoil after the election.

In addition, because many of these candidates will run for the governor, the Secretary of State, or the Chief Prosecutor of the State, etc., they will worry about whether they will refuse to recognize the Democratic Party candidate in the future election in the future election. Win. Johnshop Hopkins University Associate Professor IELTS Monker warned in an interview with the New York Times: "The scene where the president may not work in the first legal election may appear in American history."

Behind candidate's "admitting defeat" practice is behind the danger of being broken by the long -term institutional and systemic defects of American democracy. The American democracy is called "one person, one vote", which is actually "minority elite rule". The United States is a typical country dominated by the elite. "Diversified politics" is just a superficial phenomenon. Elites control the dominance of politics, economy, and military to control national machines, formulate rules and regulations, grasp the wind direction of public opinion, dominate business, and lead business. Company, exercise various privileges. Especially since the 1860s, democracy and republics have taken turns to "sit in Zhuang" to share national power, and multi -party names have survived. Ordinary voters voted for votes to third parties or independent candidates equivalent to waste voting opportunities. They can only make this or one or other choices between candidates launched by the two parties. In the context of the "Donkey Elephant Controversy", the two parties have always limited the participation of mass politics to a narrow range. For ordinary voters, it comes to the election. After the election is lingering, most people are only the "mass actors" of the election game. It is difficult to reflect the "people's governance" in American political practice. Steven Levitzki, a professor of political science at Harvard University, pointed out that the United States "is undoubtedly the most anti -most doctrine in the world."

The deep -rooted class of the United States and the opposition of ethnic groups have also made American democracy "original forms." With the solidification of the two -party political territory and voter structure, the deep -rooted class confrontation and ethnic confrontation in the United States have also projected into American democracy. The two parties continue to use political tools such as "Jelery" to play with identity politics and ethnic politics to serve the party's elections. For example, in the process of re -planning this year, the two parties continued to increase their "security constituencies" and reduce their opponents' "security constituencies" through the way of voters gathered or diluted by voters. Because the Republican Party has tougher than the Democratic Party in terms of constituencies, the election map of the House of Representatives now slightly biases the Republican Party that represents more white people, and has also made the House of Representatives more and less reflected in the real situation of the United States. With the increasing economic development level and social diversification level of the East and West Coasts in the United States and the central and western regions, the Democratic Party supporters are increasingly concentrated in the east and west coasts and metropolitan areas. Essence These are not proportional to amplify racial inequality: For the Senate and Elementary Team, the political influence of a white voters in Waioming can be equivalent to 59 California residents.

American democracy is like the scenes of Hollywood deliberately arranged. They all show carefully created people. They shouted the people in front of the stage and traded in front of them. The American people are increasingly derived from US politics, and they are becoming more and more negative about American democracy. The polls released by the University of Cinnilik on August 31 showed that 69% of Democrats and 69% of Republicans said that American democracy was "dangerous to collapse."

In an interview with the Washington Post, Page Alexander Page Alexander said, "The belief in integrity of the election is an important part of democratic operation." When the decent "admitting defeat" is replaced by possible "riots", when the supporters of the two parties have questioned the fairness and authenticity of the election for their respective reasons, the cornerstone of the so -called "democratic lighthouse" in the United States is also drawn away. Essence (Nie Shi)

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