My thinking on what must happen to save democracy has evolved.
Fact: The United States has been a backsliding democracy for some time.
Fact: We are in an information disruption.
Because democracy requires facts and an educated population, the question is whether enough people will develop the media literacy needed in this new age of information quickly enough.
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How much time we have depends on what happens in the next election.
If the Democrats win again with small margins, the backsliding can be stalled.
If the Democrats win big, the we will buy more time. There were not big enough majorities in the Senate in 2020 to do much, and then the Democrats lost the house.
I am putting together a long reading list for my blog.
Even countries that slide into authoritarianism can (and have) gotten out without war.
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@Teri_Kanefield I'm deeply afraid that the Dems' support of the genocide in Gaza will de facto destroy the US. If the narratives I'm hearing on social media is accurate, it sounds like the Dems have already lost a good chunk of the youth vote.
It would seem that for a lot of people, the point when we reached 'a bridge too far' when it comes to voting for harm reduction is this point.
Teri Kanefield
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