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Can the United States really be called a democracy? He asked himself insidiously. What is the terrible feeling of helplessness that keeps about half of those who have the right to vote not even to go to the polls?
So congratulations, all the important pets. This year, America’s turnout has risen 66 percent, the highest in 120 years and the highest since American women gained the right to vote.
Do you know how much better American politics feel? Do you feel how healthy, happy and hopeful American citizens have become now that they are doing their civic duty at the polls? Do you see the fraternal and fraternal belonging, which can only be born from a collective electoral act?
Well, no?
Of course, it could be a coincidence that the world center and the self-proclaimed superpower transform into banana republics in the same year that it breaks all records for participation. It could be, but it isn’t.
What we’re seeing right now: rowdy crowds taking to the streets to protest against everything, a president who seems to have studied democracy at Robert Mugabe’s school of letters, an opposition hungry for revenge, a press that doesn’t understand its own country, pale fat militiamen with masculinity issues, radical college students with dreams of a cultural revolution, artists scolding their fans for voting badly, lawyers suing 24 hours a day and salt bills – all of that, of course, is related with record participation. It’s exactly the same: clear signs that something is seriously wrong.
What has happened and is really in danger of destroying the United States is extreme politicization.
There were many reasons for the traditionally low US turnout. Among the reasons were things that Europeans loved to talk about, such as deliberate annoyance to drive away the poor and minority groups. But what Europeans never wanted to accept was that the main reason Americans did not vote was that Americans did not see politics as the key to their happiness.
The talk that low turnout reflected a sense of helplessness and neglect among Americans was a European projection. Rather, the low turnout reflected a widespread American feeling that they already had power over their lives. Life can be shaped by your own initiatives. It didn’t take many politicians to do something.
So it was a sign of health rather than a sign of illness that so few Americans voted. They did not feel the need to change society in general. And it is quite obvious that it is a sign of illness that so many Americans have felt compelled to vote this year.
What has happened and is really in danger of destroying the United States is extreme politicization. Americans have lost their basic sense of trust. It is now that they feel powerless and scared. That is why they are going to vote. And in the hands of demagogues, radicals and others with obsessive compulsive political disorder, politics is now crushing American civil society. It is being replaced by a sterile battlefield of ideology and propaganda. Politics has ensured that Americans can no longer even speak to each other.
And from Europe come the congratulations for the high participation. It’s a very special class on that idiot.
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