Yahoo News shows that a majority of Democrats (55%) and Republicans (53%) now believe that “the United States is unlikely to be a democracy in the future.” This feeling indicates the despair of the two parties about the direction of the country.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency, Half of Americans (49%) express the same sentiments, considering independents and those with no political affiliation, while only a quarter (25%) believe the end of US “democracy” is unlikely, and another quarter (25%) say they are not sure about this.
At the same time, however, a large number of Americans appear to be indifferent to the high-level meetings of the House Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Congress building.
In fact, a new survey of 1,541 American adults from June 10 (the day after the committee’s first hearing) to June 13 (the day of its second hearing) found that less than 1 in 4 people (24%) say Who watched it live. Only slightly more (27%) say they received news coverage later. Nearly half (49%) say they did not attend the January 6 hearing on the US Congress at all.
Yahoo News reported: So while the data show that many Americans seem to be losing faith in the future of U.S. democracy, relatively few seem interested in counting on real efforts to undermine it. This raises a troubling question; Have Americans simply given up on democracy? The poll does not go that far, but it does show that Americans have largely given up on each other.
As usual, partisanship is the key to understanding what is happening here. Live viewers had the lowest ratings of Donald Trump (9%), Republicans (13%) and Fox News (22%). Joe Biden (47%), Democrats (44%) and Social Democrats (52%) had the highest rates. Approximately three-quarters (72%) of those who attended the meetings were identified as Democrats.
As a result, less than half of Americans (45%) say they believe in the central claim of the Democratic-led committee; that the January 6 attack was “part of a conspiracy to overthrow the election.” Others either say it was not (35%) or are unsure (20%).
Similarly, only 37 percent of Americans believe there was a conspiracy with “Donald Trump at the center”; this is another major argument made by the Congressional Research Committee.
Again, party affiliation shows these views; Eighty-four percent of Biden voters and 77 percent of Democrats believe the attack was part of a plot to overthrow the election; Seventy-one percent of pro-Trump voters and 59 percent of Republicans believe the attack was not part of such a conspiracy. The independents were equally – 39% in favor versus 41% – disagreed.
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But if Republicans and Democrats-leaning independents largely ignore the Jan. 6 congressional uprising, then why are most of them pessimistic about the future of democracy? For the same reason, most of them refused to attend the hearings in the first place because they saw the Democrats, not Trump supporters, who attacked Congress as a real problem.
When asked to choose the phrase that best describes “most people as a political opposition,” a majority of Republicans used extreme negative phrases such as “far from reality” (30%), “threat to America” ​​(25%). ), Chose “immoral” (8%) and “threat to me” (4%). A small proportion of respondents chose more sympathetic expressions such as “good” (4%) or “not so different from me” (6%).
The results are almost the same among Democrats; Negative phrases such as “far from reality” (27%), “threat to America” ​​(23%), “immoral” (7%) and “threat to me” (4%) of comments such as “good” (7%) or “it’s not that different from me” (5%) increased.
Meanwhile, the number of pro-Trump and Biden voters who say the other side is primarily a threat to the United States (28 percent and 25 percent, respectively) is twice as many as those who say the other side is primarily “wrong about politics.”
A new Yogau-Yahoo News poll also shows that anger over the goals of the US House of Representatives investigation has waned over the past seven months. The minority group also believes that the attack on Congress is “justified” (17%), which is 5% more than in December. In December, the figure was 12 percent, and now it is the highest figure ever recorded.
The number of Americans who described the Jan. 6 rally as “primarily peaceful and the rule of law” (30 percent) also rose 6 percent (from 24 percent) since December.
The poll also sparked hope for the House Research Committee. In December, 72 percent of Republicans said the committee would not tell the truth about January 6. But now the number of Republicans who hold such a view is down 12 percent to 60 percent. However, the number of those who said they were not sure about this has increased by 10% to 28%. This shows that there is hope for more persuasion.
However, a full 60 percent of Democrats and 61 percent of Republicans now believe that the United States is becoming a “less democratic country.” Only 23 percent say the country is becoming “more democratic.”
A majority of Republicans (52%) also say that civil war is likely to occur during their lifetime in the United States; half the independents (50%) and a large number of Democrats (46%) agree. In each group, less than 4 in 10 people say another civil war is unlikely.
The poll also shows that only half of Americans want to reject “physical violence” (50 percent) and “take up arms against the government” (47 percent) if “such actions are justified in order to protect the country from radical extremists.” has been.” About a quarter of Americans say violence (26 percent) and possession of a weapon (23 percent) can be justified.