Civil war expert recoils in horror at interviews with Trump fans: 'They don't want democracy anymore

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By Travis Gettys
Published January 27, 2022

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The U.S. recently fell out of the rankings of democratic nations, and one expert worries that it will happen again -- and tip the country into civil war.

Barbara Walter, a University of California professor and an expert on civil conflicts, recently wrote about the political volatility in the U.S. since the Jan. 6 insurrection, which dropped the country into the anocracy zone, and she told CNN the riot had made the deadly risks from Donald Trump's lies "impossible to deny and ignore."

"Anocracies are neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic; their citizens enjoy some elements of democratic rule (e.g., elections), while other rights (e.g., due process or freedom of the press) suffer," Walter wrote for the Washington Post. "In the last weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency, the respected Center for Systemic Peace (CSP) calculated that, for the first time in more than two centuries, the United States no longer qualified as a democracy. It had, over the preceding five years, become an anocracy."

https://www.rawstory.com/what-is-anocracy/

[MissMillie]

1. "They're good people." ??????

They're racists.

They believe the lies because it suits their narrative--that it's not only OK to disenfranchise women and people of color, but that it's necessary to keep their superior standing.

[randr]

2. Of course they don't want Democracy

They have lost and need another system to gain power again.

[sanatanadharma]

3. "Democracy" is the core principle of the American experiment

For decades longer than my eight, we and the world have been propagandized about the 'exceptionalism of a democratic system. The USA has been defined as the Democratic Bastion of the world; a political system to be sold to other nations.

Simply put, to be anti-democracy is to be anti-American.
"You are anti-American" are the only words one need use when forced to face a fascist.

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. No, it isn't, and it never was

the vaunted founders thought democracy was dangerous and would lead to mob rule. Actual democracy (and not just 'democracy for white people' ) didn't arrive until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

[Mr. Ected]

5. For decades they've all been bombarded with messaging that liberals are a threat to democracy

And that the only way to protect America is to defend it against Democrats.

Imagine that.

These folks are so easily tricked and manipulated it's just sad.