First and foremost, I do not intend on being hyperbolic, even though the title would suggest otherwise.

We must recognize that politics do not happen in a vacuum, nor do seismic shifts in the sociopolitical field happen overnight. Often, changes come about in a slow and methodical manner, sometimes by happenstance, and others by design. Part of the advantage of the slowness is that it prompts moderates to be inactive, and makes those raising the alarm to be deemed as "overreactive" or "paranoid." Upon a closer look at whats been happening throughout America, I cannot help but think that we are heading towards the potential death of our Democracy.

Multiple swing states have begun enacting new voting suppression laws or proposing new voting suppression bills that threaten to make it all but impossible for Democrats to win. I'm not only saying this because of attacks on drop-boxes, mail-in ballots, or expanded voting hours, but because this legislature also undoes a lot of the political checks and mechanisms that prevented state legislatures from overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Considering that the majority of these swing states have a GOP majority, it becomes very likely that they will support accusations of voter fraud if the results in any given county support Democrats in 2022 or 2024 (Part of the reason I believe this is the current purging of the party at a federal level of those willing to say that the election in 2020 wasn't Stolen, ex. Liz Cheney).

Now, some state Democrats, such as the ones in Texas, showed enough of a backbone as a political entity to try to prevent their voter suppression bill from being passed, but that doesn't guarantee that the state Republicans won't try to force the matter through anyways.

With this in mind, the only real chance at undoing some of the damage these voter suppression bills are creating is to pass a federal voting rights act into law, something which seems more unlikely by the day, specially since the Congressional Democrats seem to lack the political will to force the issue, or they're hopelessly hamstringed by the centrist elements of their party, mainly those who still years for bipartisanship with a party that has no interest in good-faith negotiations.

Therefore, without Federal voting protection, and state GOP legislatures going on a voting suppression frenzy, and a democrat party unable or unwilling to confront these issues decisively, what realistic chance does democracy have to survive in the coming years?