Democrats won the election? Its dumfounding, those same people that support race riots destroying democracy. Really? Methinks we need more than a recount. Democrats are pushing for one party system. Hegemony isn't American.
It is Republicans who are actively trying to "destroy democracy". Republicans are moving towards an autocracy and away from democracy. This is
It's dumbfounding to you that people would get upset and angry enough that their very real problems and concerns were being ignored that they would take to the streets? It's dumbfounding to me that it took this long for people to take to the streets. Especially given that peaceful protests, such a "taking a knee" were vilified as "unpatriotic". When peaceful protest is ignored, violent protest is inevitable.
It seems the right has a real problem with any kind of protest. "America - love it or leave it", seems to be the right wing response to any criticism of the country or its policies. This is NOT democracy, in any way shape or form, this is right wing authoritarianism. Democracy encourages the voices of those who have issues, and they listen to those issues and take steps to address the problem. What you are asking for is "authoritarism", where the government is always right, and the people don't dare protest - like Russia.
Yet you take it as a point of pride that when Governors refused to open states during the pandemic, groups of armed, right wing, thugs attacked state houses and intimmidated the legislators and their staff, who worked there. You called these armed thugs "patriots" who were standing up for their rights. You called one of these thugs, who crossed state lines with an illegal gun, and shot three people, killing two of them, a "hero".
You cheered when a right wing thug with a gun, hunted down and terrorized a 17 year old boy on his way home from the corner store, and then killed the boy, got off on a phony "self defense" plea.
What you describe as "destroying democracy" is actually the opposite. Democracy is messy and difficult. You have to listen to people you don't like, and consider their feelings. Black people have been protesting the violence and systemic racism they've been dealing with from the police since slavery was abolished.
Republican held states have been closing polling places in poor and low income neighbourhoods, "purging" voter rolls of "inactive voters" in primarily "poor neighbourhoods", usually a short time before national elections, without notification to those whose voting rights are affected.
Republicans have been gerrymandering and taking extreme steps to supress the votes of minorities and the poor. Backed by a judicial system which strips voting rights from felons and a "zero tolerance" drug policy. Republicans have only won the popular vote in one Presidential election since 1992, and yet they've held the White House for 12 years during that time frame, not 4.
So pardon me if I find your wailing and gnashing of teeth over the "death of democracy" by supporters of the Republican Party, laughable at best.
