I can hardly believe this...37% of Americans want to lose democracy.

[sinkingfeeling]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-sore-loser/2020/11/14/b6c58500-2375-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html

Large majorities of Americans still embrace democracy. But the share of voters who want “a strong leader who does not have to bother with Congress and elections” grew from 25 percent in 1990 to 37 percent in 2017, according to the World Values Survey, which measured attitudes in 48 countries.

[LisaL]

1. Well, that explains Trump voters.

NT

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. Ugh, and I've met some of them.

They're usually racists who don't want minorities to vote, but they've been careful to not say that explicitly. (They provided other clues during conversations.)

[uponit7771]

25. +1, when the "leader" is a person that they're not relating to they're all of a sudden for democracy

[GoCubsGo]

3. They should move to Russia or Iran.

Or, Turkey or Hungary. Come on, Trumpsters! Delta is ready when you are! You'll love it there!

[Butterflylady]

4. That's because they've never lived under those circumstances.

Maybe they should live in one of those countries to find out what it's like. Once they got a taste of it, they would be clamoring to return to a democracy.

[Silent3]

12. Not necessarily so

A fair number of people living under autocracies drink the koolaid deeply, and truly love their Dear Leader.

[PatSeg]

5. I think they have Trump in mind

when they say they want "a strong leader" instead of a democracy. If it was someone else, they probably wouldn't be so quick to dump democracy.

[BusyBeingBest]

13. Right. This is totally a reflection of that cult.

[Newest Reality]

6. To that they replied:

"Bah! Bleet! Eee-or!"

[DrToast]

7. Reflective of our crappy Democracy

[Phoenix61]

11. More reflective of crappy schools. nt

[world wide wally]

14. More accurately, crappy parents.

[BusyBeingBest]

8. That is worrisome, but you only have to read Republican blogs

to see how many of them wish Trump had made himself fully a dictator and declared a military coup. They literally say this. These are the same people who went all tea-party 10 years ago and supposedly carried little copies of the Constitution in their pockets because Obama came up with a law to provide affordable health insurance. They're using their little mini-Constitutions now for toilet paper, I guess.

[Thomas Hurt]

9. Not surprising, conservatism is about the indvidual...indvidual rule, power, greed, control etc.

[Mr. Ected]

10. Ball's in our court

We'll continue to outnumber them, but they'll continue to sabotage the system to level the playing field. We need to push, push, push GOTV, even and especially for the mid-terms, as our very existence depends on it.

[gulliver]

15. Leading would be much less important if we all had our ideas straight.

Right now, the Republican ideas are deadly, not just physically deadly (ignore climate change and pandemics) but economically deadly (no job and it's ok if you starve) and even spiritually deadly (there's no truth and nothing is sacred and some people's lives are worthless).

[CanonRay]

16. They want a Christian theocracy

not hard to believe at all.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

17. Yep, that's a lot of it.

[hunter]

20. They want a WHITE male Christian theocracy.

Some of them worship a white male god in heaven.

Many of their leaders are simply grifters.

[Politicalgolfer]

18. Okay then...let's make Joe the dictator and put Mitch in a dungeon😊

I have no problem with that. Great way to eradicate the KoolAide Clan👍😁 Ummmm, I'm really liking the idea.....

[dawg]

19. I think we need to find a way to compromise with these people.

We'll continue to vote and elect our leaders. And they can shut the fuck up and do what they're told.

Both sides win!

[Arthur_Frain]

21. About the same number of evangelicals in the US.....

Coincidence? I think not. A group of people, protected by the constitution, right here in the United States, angling to undo democracy. All because they crave an authoritarian father figure to tell them what to do.

Pathetic if they weren't so dangerous.

FTR according to Wikipedia, they’re 30-35% of the population. Under-reported I think.

[Shermann]

22. As soon as that number hits 51%, it's on like Donkey Kong! nt

[Laelth]

23. I believe it.

Divided government is killing us, and the longer progress is hampered by the filibuster and the Senate, the greater the yearning for an autocrat who can “get something done” will become.

-Laelth

[moondust]

24. Trump's cult.

I wonder if any of them have relatives who fought and died or lost limbs fighting fascism.

Perhaps partly to blame is the unbridled greed cut loose by Reagan that after 40 years some people simply cannot control: "too much and never enough," to quote a certain Trump family member.

[bigtree]

26. 30% of them don't know what the word means

...and probably think it's a term Democrats made up.

[beachbumbob]

27. Huge number of Americans suppprted Hitler's cause