Source: Report
Author: Li Yizhong
2017 to 2021 is the most anxious period for many American liberal politicians. The main reason is of course from Trump's unique personalized governance.Doubt, but most people in the United States do not care about the harm of Trump's style to democracy.At that time, the two nouns were once entangled in the media. One was the "post -truth" and the other was "democratic fatigue".The external manifestation of "democratic fatigue" seems to have not really begun to talk about surrender.
"Democratic fatigue" has also become one of the themes of exploring the phenomenon of American social phenomena. In 2020, Harvard's paper entitled democratic indifference: the root cause of exploring the root cause of democratic fatigue of the millennium is to determine that democratic fatigue does exist, especially the occurrence of occurrence, especially the occurrenceIn "Millennium".
The so -called "democratic fatigue" refers to the great decline in democratic countries' participation or practical level, such as low voting rates and lack of interest in public issues.As for how democratic fatigue occurs?The thesis is classified as a few factors.First of all, the growth background of the millennium has been accompanied by extensive and powerful citizenship, including voting rights, freedom of speech, and free competition. Therefore, since their daily momentum is no longer for "pursuing democracy", until 2016, the millennial generationsThe fifth cycle of the election has already entered the election. When they vote, the motivation of "maintaining democracy" has become quite weak.So, what are they concerned about?
The dissertation quotes a period of democracy consolidation theory. It is mentioned that the people of any country can mainly flourish. After all, the people must obtain the actual material interests. Once this economic surplus is lost, democracy consolidation will be relatively difficult, especially young democracy.The country and economic system often determine the fate of democratic development. Before democratic consolidation, democracy announced that it was not uncommon for countries that failed.
The reason why returning to the millennium of the United States can also be blamed on economic uneasiness. When wages have stagnated, living costs rose, and the gap between the rich and the poor is widen, which makes the future more elusive.People will only focus more on personal career and financial stability, leading to a decline in political participation rates.If plus political functional disorders (especially polarized politics) and changing social and cultural norms, and criticism, as democratic citizens, they may also lose their belief in democracy until more and more people are some kind of authoritarianismAttracted by the alternative, and began to select an anti -system party or candidate through "democratic voting", thinking that it was necessary to try it.Trump then came to power.
This is the most worried about Americans's most worried about democratic fatigue.Because of one of the US democratic politics risks, in the end, it may be because this country has not obviously obviously cross -border entry into dictatorship for a long time, so that there is no effective alarm to prevent democracy from deviating.The people are all alarmist. After all, the erosion of democracy is almost unacceptable.Until Trump came to power, in the early days, the citizens of the millennial generation had not really wanted to go to the United States.
Trump's tenure is the most frustrated moment in the United States. Although they warned as early as 2016, they believed that Trump's style of acting would cause serious damage to American democracy, but at that time in the United States, the United States was at the time in the United StatesWhen the social "democracy fatigue" is the most fermented, those warnings are even accused of being a kind of conspiracy and political struggle.
In addition, according to the digital data quoted by democratic indifference thesis, since the statistics of 2005, there are a few American people who do not think that "living in democratic countries is absolutely necessary".In the case of more so -called "political independence", they despise democracy because of the disorders of democratic function. At the same time, it seems that anyone who has governed this country is not bad or unreasonable.
Trump's four -year term, the American people have not been stable because of this. On the contrary, in terms of foreign relations, because of Trump's rate, the moment of international trust in the United States at that timeInside, the extremes of extremes and exclusion are rising. Non -mainstream paranoid speech has begun to seize a place, creating the reality of another time and space for American society.After all, the United States is fighting with itself after all.
Until the 2022 -year -old election, American democracy seemed to return to the norm that was familiar in the past. On the one hand, Biden lost most of the seats in the Democratic House of Representatives due to the dilemma of economic policy.There is no "red tsunami", and the Senate is still led by the Democratic Party.State government elections, look at the personal business performance of candidates.To say that this election has made the United States Liberal Fatter's physics and minds over the years and finally relieved, it should not be exaggerated. This also reflects the shock process brought by "democratic fatigue".Democracy and beliefs of a country's democracy and beliefs are tested, and even the United States has no special effects of treatment.
