I agree, but right now it looks like it hangs in the balance. Democracy is a functional political model and it hardly characterizes the US any more.

If it is US or UK style "democracy", I'm OK with failure. 😐

Well, you been outside, watched tv, gone to see empty shelves at the store?

No mandates or proclamations or networked voting machines

The US is the most authoritarian state that exists.

It already has. We no longer have a democracy in the U.S. We are an oligarchy. The U.S. government is controlled by corporations and billionaires.

What if 50% wants authoritarianism?

We are wayyyyy beyond having democracy

Democracy is a form of government in which 1. the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation, or 2. to choose governing officials to do so. 1. We know doesn’t happen. 2. Corporations choose officials

We don’t live in a democracy - Princeton study revealed that there is zero correlation between what people want & what politicians do, but almost 100% correlation between what corporations want & what becomes law. scholar.princeton.edu/sites/…