This poll shows just what I suspected (almost)

I'm not sure how the polling determines "Biden supporters" but the far-left don't tend to call themselves that. Anyways, I'm not sure what conclusions you can take from a sample of 2000 people who are registered voters. Maybe its worse, since they actually bothered to register, or maybe they just have partisan brain worms.

 

Discourse has long meant screaming your talking points. Discussion and compromise is evil. Battling media to push said points strengthening the divide.

Now through in a fubar primary system that favors extremists and craycray

 

If I had to guess, only a tiny, TINY percentage of Republicans would be up for taking selfies with Capitol guards again.

 

I think it's interesting but not clear to me how long they've been asking the question about having a different form of government. It would be interesting to know how people would have answered the same question 1855, 1965, and 2000.

 

That was my first reaction too.

The numbers are disconcerting in isolation but yet perhaps not all that different than the past.

 

I'm suspicious of that poll. What's the percentage of republicans who support Trump, a quintessential autocrat vs. the percentage of democrats who support him? That's what really reveals where the danger to our Republic lies.

 

That fake azz news... There is ONE Party, the Dems, that have radicalize every part of our elected class of government and that includes all the agenesis.

One more thing... we NEVER HAVE HAD "Democracy." We The People have a Constitutional Republic.

 

Let’s look at it from a different angle. I think just about anyone, when the level of trust gets bad enough, would probably rationalize authoritarianism over democracy. Take the Middle East. Gaza for instance. Do any of us trust the Palestinians to elect democratic representation that we can live with, or won’t just immediately go theocratic? Same for much of the Middle East. The Arab spring was a bust. Most of us at this point are quite happy that these countries are not democratic.

Given the level of media hysteria on domestic politics and how bad “the other side” is, this is probably inevitable. It certainly seems more exaggerated from the right but from the polling it isn’t trivial on the left either.

 

Plenty of those on the left support autocratic ideas, if it’s for things they agree with. Forced vaccinations is one example of such a thing..

 

Can't disagree with that, though I doubt any support the only influential politician actually presenting himself as an autocrat.

You apparently don't really know what constitutes an autocracy.

 

This is why the electorate is to blame for our current environment, not hucksters like Trump or other flavors of his ilk. Trump types have always existed, and until recent years have been ignored as the crackpots they are. Also your kooky conspiracy theorist-types have always existed too. Yammering on about NWO-Illuminati cabals, flat-earth, no moon landing, trackers in our vaccines...you know the type. Tin hat jesters. I remember just 10-20 years ago when politics came up in the office, you'd have more "normal" discussions/disagreements and then you'd have THAT person that everyone would chuckle over. Well Trump was the first I can remember, smart enough, to grab that group of voters as a base. He also has added the group I think are frustrated that the middle class has disappeared, elites are ignoring their plight, and that he is the elixir that will save the day. The chickens making the fox king. You have that, add in a dash of the current social-issue outrage, with a pinch of social media, and eureka, you have our current left/right monsters which have no desire to compromise and to "win" at all costs. Violent if needed. Because, you know, if we don't win the world will end with that "other" anti-Christ in charge.

The kooks have been and will always exist. No changing their minds. If we are to ever get back to a better place, it first starts with being willing to vote for decent (not perfect) PEOPLE, whether they are left of center or right of center. Stop being so manipulated into the "anti-Christ" mindset. All of these idiots are elected officials. Stop being an idiot electorate. The non-kooks are the majority.

 

Especially not the crazy maga haters on THFSG...