As Americans celebrate the 242nd
anniversary of the independence of the States, Freedom House, https://freedomhouse.org/, has issued a
new study, the Democracy Project, https://www.democracyprojectreport.org/,
which suggests a weakening of democracy in America .
On the positive side, a large
majority of Americans do recognize the benefits of liberty and representative
government and support equality.
However, a majority of Americans consider democracy in their country to
be weak and a larger majority consider it to be getting weaker, with a clear
danger of authoritarianism, such as has been rising around the world, even
among popularly-elected governments. A
disturbingly significant portion of Americans do not even recognize the benefit
of representative government at home, while a majority of Americans do not
appreciate the benefit of promoting it abroad, except among those who are
better educated.
The survey was conducted in
partnership with the George W. Bush Institute, https://www.bushcenter.org/explore-our-work/index.html,
and the Penn Biden Center
Education, both formally and
informally and through public discourse, greater public virtue and certain
reasonable political reforms are necessary to increase support for freedom and
representative government and to strengthen the institutions meant to safeguard
them in order to secure the blessings of liberty for all Americans, now and in
the future, as well as to be an example to the rest of the world.
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