In these fractured, divisive times, it’s nice when people from across the political spectrum can come together and find common ground upon which to set aside their rancorous partisan sniping. And so, in that spirit of niceness and bipartisan comity, I invite you, dear reader, to celebrate with me the fact that a majority of Democrats and Republicans have apparently united behind the belief that we’re all totally screwed.
Okay, that’s not exactly true. What is true is that more than half of both Democrats and Republicans believe it’s “likely” that the United States will “cease to be a democracy in the future,” at 55% and 53%, respectively, according to a just-released poll from Yahoo! News/YouGov. All told, just under 50% of the country at large believes America is headed towards a probable undemocratic future, including responses from independents and people who are politically unaffiliated.
