TEHRAN (Iran News) –For decades or according to some claims for centuries the West and predominantly the U.S. have been claiming of supporting democracy and they have been apparently fighting for it in their own countries and even been seeking it in other countries but when we just have a look at their own records we realize that it is much ado for nothing and democracy is an illusion and hollow that even their own people do not believe in the claims and slogans of their statesmen.
A new poll released in the U.S. shows how much its people believe in the democracy in Western and better to say the American style which is actually hollow and deceitful.
The poll conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research says only about 1 in 10 U.S. adults give high ratings to the way democracy is working in the United States or how well it represents the interests of most Americans, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
As per poll, majorities of adults say U.S. laws and policies do a poor job of representing what most Americans want on issues ranging from the economy and government spending to gun policy, immigration and abortion. The poll shows 53% say Congress is doing a bad job of upholding democratic values, compared with just 16% who say it’s doing a good job.
The findings illustrate widespread political alienation as a polarized country limps out of the pandemic and into a recovery haunted by inflation and fears of a recession. In interviews, respondents worried less about the machinery of democracy — voting laws and the tabulation of ballots — and more about the outputs.
Overall, about half the country — 49% — say democracy is not working well in the United States, compared with 10% who say it’s working very or extremely well and 40% only somewhat well. About half also say each of the political parties is doing a bad job of upholding democracy, including 47% who say that about Democrats and even more — 56% — about Republicans.
A self-described moderate Republican, Brown has seen the United States falling short of its democratic promise ever since learning in high school that the Electoral College allows someone to become president while not winning the majority of national votes. But he’s especially disappointed with Congress now, seeing its obsessions as not reflective of the people’s will.
“They’re fighting over something, and it has nothing to do with the economy,” Brown said, singling out the GOP-controlled House’s investigation of President Joe Biden’s son.
The poll shows 53% of Americans say views of “people like you” are not represented well by the government, with 35% saying they’re represented somewhat well and 12% very or extremely well. About 6 in 10 Republicans and independents feel like the government is not representing people like them well, compared with about 4 in 10 Democrats.
Karalyn Kiessling, a researcher at the University of Michigan who participated in the poll, sees troubling signs all around her. A Democrat, she recently moved to a conservative area outside the liberal campus hub of Ann Arbor, and worried that conspiracy theorists who believe former President Donald Trump’s lies that he won the 2020 election would show up as poll watchers. Her Republican family members no longer identify with the party and are limiting their political engagement.
Kiessling researches the intersection of public health and politics and sees many other ways to participate in a democracy in addition to voting — from being active in a political party to speaking at a local government meeting. But she fears increased partisan nastiness is scaring people away from these crucial outlets.
Polarization has transformed some states into single-party dominions, further alienating people like Mark Short, a Republican who lives in Dana Point, California.
The poll shows that the vast majority of Americans — 71% — think what most Americans want should be highly important when laws and policies are made, but only 48% think that’s actually true in practice.
So we see that even Americans have lost their faith in what their statesmen claim of supporting the democracy and they blamed double standard attitude regarding the democracy.
With such a reaction by American people, one expects the U.S. officials to focus more on domestic issues rather than meddling into the affairs of other nations and stop trying to inject their ineffective democracy into other nations.
Democracy means respecting what people demand but we see actually the U.S. statesmen insist on what they themselves demand and want than the people, and for this reason people are losing their trust to the officials and even are losing their support to the American style democracy.
Of course, condition is the same, and if not worse, in other Western countries and countries like France and the UK, who claim they ardently support democracy and freedom in their countries and also in other countries, use force and even bullets to make the people follow their fake democracies.
In recent years those countries who have claimed more than others in supporting democracy have behaved otherwise and they have been anti-democracy and they have just been pretending they are supporters of democracy and they seek imposing their wrong version of democracy in other countries, something that even their own people do not believe in it while they want it to be accepted and supported by other countries.
One can see that the Western democracy is reaching its end or a dead-end and it is just a fuss and much ado about nothing trumpeted by the U.S. and its so-called pro-democracy Western allies.
