American democracy nearly dead: US media

BEIJING -- The United States is not united as the expectation of US President Joe Biden, since the prospects for his legislative agenda remain uncertain and the White House may abandon bipartisan negotiation about Biden's infrastructure bill, according to The New Yorker on Thursday.

State legislatures controlled by Republicans are passing measures that will make it more difficult for many Americans to vote. Senate Republicans blocked the proposed bipartisan panel, which is intended to probe the Jan 6 Capitol riot. Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader, said that an investigation on the Jan 6 riot was nonsense since it would have "no new fact". All of these seem like "not the signs of a healthy democracy", according to the article.

Biden does not talk about Jan 6, Republican obstructionism and even the words "Donald Trump". This is "infuriating to Democrats who wish for stronger pushback to daily outrages generated by a Republican Party", the article said.

The American two-party system is going into extremism and "nearly thirty percent of the Republicans endorsed the idea that the country is so far 'off track'", leading to the decline of American democracy, it said.