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Ryan Bridge: Is democracy under threat?

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Is it just me or does it feel like democracy is somewhat under threat or at risk?  Just reading the international news headlines day in day out, it feels precarious.  Trump, over the weekend if you missed it, is suggesting that he will fix the next election. And I know he's probably joking, but you never really tell with Donald Trump.  "You won't have to do it anymore, four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore.  My beautiful Christians, I love you Christians."  So there's Trump and then you've got a barely functioning Joe Biden in the White House. Are these the shining beacons of democracy we can hold up as our poster kids.  I don't think so.  And then there's, if you look apart from the Olympics in France, the election result there has left them basically in limbo.  I mean, who is actually running the government you know, the Olympics is kind of the spectacle.  That's a sideshow, but really who's running the place and there's such an extreme spectrum from t