.thereidout Blog: Vice President Harris issued a dire warning about the state of U.S. democracy, saying voter suppression laws hurt America's credibility in the world.
The vice president issued a dire warning Sunday about how America will be seen on the global stage if Congress doesn’t pass voting rights protections.Sarahbeth Maney / AFP via Getty ImagesVice President Kamala Harris issued a dire warning about the state of U.S. democracy on Sunday, saying the United States is at risk of losing its standing in the world if Congress doesn’t pass legislation protecting voting rights in the coming year.
“It is becoming unfortunately apparent that it is almost a tyranny of the majority, where minorities’ right to vote are being denied in many areas, many parts of the country and that this cannot be a positive development,” de Varennes observed. “This cannot be consistent with the fundamental values of democracy and certainly does not seem to be consistent with the United States’ human rights obligations.
That’s consistent with a recent report that listed the United States as one of the world’s “backsliding democracies.” “The United States, the bastion of global democracy, fell victim to authoritarian tendencies itself, and was knocked down a significant number of steps on the democratic scale,” according to
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