Are We Losing Our Democracy? (NYT editorial board)

[LearnedHand]

(Gift link) I guess better late than never.

Countries that slide from democracy toward autocracy tend to follow similar patterns. To measure what is happening in the United States, the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion, with help from scholars who have studied this phenomenon. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.

Our country is still not close to being a true autocracy, in the mold of Russia or China. But once countries begin taking steps away from democracy, the march often continues. We offer these 12 markers as a warning of how much Americans have already lost and how much more we still could lose.

[mwmisses4289]

1. Thanks in large part to you blithering loons at your birdcage paper.

You have woken up almost too late.

[RockRaven]

2. It isn't NYT waking up. It is NYT disclaiming any responsibility for what they've done.

[mwmisses4289]

3. Ah, that makes more sense.

That paper ain't worth spit.

[markodochartaigh]

4. Defendant on trial for murdering his parents:

"Your Honor, please have mercy on me, I'm an orphan!"

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

5. Nytimes..Thanks for joining in the battering of Biden admin

[AverageOldGuy]

6. Memo to NYT:

I need to hear more about:
1. Her emails.
2. Biden's incapacity.

[NewHendoLib]

7. NYT as normalizer of the orange asshole, and enabler of this growing problem. I canned them when they

attacked Biden - should have even done it sooner.

[grandpamike1]

8. NYT

If we are, then the NYT is a co-conspirator, since they have bent a knee, a long time ago, and they and the WAPO, mainly, are the culprits who helped take us to the place we are at. But the one who is the most irresponsible is The Fox Propaganda Network.

[ShazamIam]

9. They have been the. credible to the public, enablers of Trump, they aren't going to admit that. nt

[ColoringFool]

10. Dear NYT:

NS, SHERLOCK.
Maybe YOU should subscribe to DU!

[thesquanderer]

11. Some of us thought the PATRIOT Act was existential. How quaint. (n/t)