A new poll has found that 90% of Californians believe democracy in the U.S. is being tested, if it’s not under outright attack.
The UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll released Thursday polled nearly 6,500 California voters, finding that almost two-thirds of them agreed that “American democracy is under attack.”
“Another 26% describe it as ‘being tested, but it is not under attack,’” the IGS said. “Only one in ten California voters think our democracy is in ‘no danger.’”
And those concerns don’t come from just one party, the Los Angeles Times detailed.
“They are shared regardless of income or education level, race or ethnicity,” the Times explained. “Californians living in big cities and rural countrysides, young and old, expressed similar unease.”
Eric Schickler, co-director of the Institute of Governmental Studies, said the poll shows “the deep concerns that many California voters have about the state of American democracy.”
“Not many years ago, it is hard to imagine that a majority of voters would have seen U.S. democracy as under severe threat,” Schickler said. “It is now something of a new ‘normal’ — itself a worrisome sign about how things have shifted.”
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