Structural Fragility in Modern Democracies (decode39.com)

• Political violence as a systemic threat to democratic stability.
• Algorithm-driven echo chambers accelerating internal societal fragmentation.
• External authoritarian exploitation of Western domestic social conflicts.

"Rising political violence in the U.S. signals a deeper structural crisis for digital-age democracies. Alberto Pagani argues that the convergence of extreme polarization, social media-driven echo chambers, and embedded gun culture creates vulnerabilities that security services cannot mitigate. These internal fractures are actively leveraged by authoritarian regimes to erode the resilience of Western democratic systems from within."