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The biannual Harvard Youth Poll, the nation’s leading survey of 18-29-year-olds, finds the idea of “America” to be profoundly polarizing for the nation’s youth: less than half of young Americans (41%) say they are proud to be American. Almost a third (29%) say they are embarrassed to be American.
As long as we say that bigotry is permissible so long as it comes from a deeply-held religious belief, we cannot be surprised when LGBTQ+ people are harmed.
The “race to the right” has enabled a rebirth of right-wing authoritarianism in ostensibly liberal democracies at an unprecedented scale, calling the future of the democratic order into question.
"Socialist” parties are not only endangering themselves by losing the support of the working class, but they are endangering the entirety of left-wing politics by forcing the splinter of the left-of-center front.
Across the world, “democracies” are hiding powerful authoritarian structures that allow parties to write the rules of the game they play, producing an inherent bias that only further undermines the nature of their democracy.