No form of government lasts forever, and it is foolhardy to believe that the United States cannot fall prey to the forces that have ended democracies in many other countries.
Confidence in the institutions of American government is at an all-time low. The Pew Research Center has been tracking public trust in government since 1958. It has gone from a high of 77% in 1964 to our contemporary 20%.
A Brookings Institution study found that '29% of ... young Americans say that democracy is not always preferable to other political forms.' This indicates a significant concern for the future of democratic values.
Many of the problems can be traced back to aspects of the Constitution... The framers of the Constitution, out a distrust for democracy, wanted elites to choose the president and created the Electoral College.
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