So a majority approves. Fuck this country.
Generally not how polling works, only 34% approved and the remainder is just no response.
75% of Republican respondents approved of the National Guard deployment, only 68% for the Marines deployment.
This country continues to depress me. It really should be way higher.
It’s going to be interesting to see the reaction on the ones who approve when Trumpflation really gets going because farms can’t hire enough workers to pick their fields and work their cattle and poultry mills.
Good time to plant a victory garden. You’re gonna need it.
“nearly half” so over 50% of US adults are mentally challenged it seems
Did 2024 not teach you that already? It’s all a lost cause.
Well, remember George Carlin when he said something along the lines of “Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half the population is dumber than that.”
45% disapprove the National Guard deployment, while 38% said they approve.
So 38% are enemies of Constitution and country.
The Authoritarians- a book by Prof. Altmeyer- says there’s about 1/3 of the population who are authoritarians and that percentage is pretty constant no matter what one does. SO it sounds about right
I hadn’t heard of that book before. Looking it up, it’s a book about the psychology of authoritarianism, backed by research and receipts. I’ll add it to the top of my reading list. It also seems to be available for free on the author’s website. Thank you for this.
Anytime there’s a poll, it’s always the same 30-39% of shitheads liking the bad thing.
That means a majority approve or don’t care. We’re fucked
45% don’t approve and 38% approve someone said further up. Still not great but not the majority the headline makes it seem
or don’t care
17% of the population not giving a shit is a problem
More than half of US citizens are fascists? That does not surprise me.
So over half of Americans aren’t concerned with accelerating authoritarianism? Great.
38% percent not over half
Yes over half. If nearly half of respondents disapprove, than the other over half either support it or don’t care enough to oppose it, which is to say they aren’t concerned about it.
A lot of Americans barely understand how the government actually functions.
Yeah, to add to that, the majority of Americans unfortunately have poor literacy levels with reading below sixth-grade level.
https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy
And you can probably guess which party governs most states with the lowest funding levels for improving literacy.
If “nearly half” disprove that means more than half approve.
That’s fucking disgusting.There’s always a good percentage that are indifferent or “don’t know”. But they’re no help.
So basically the same outcome as the election. People haven’t changed.
The people that don’t care will continue to not care until it affects them directly. Even with the tariffs it won’t matter until what they’re actually buying gets hit by the price hikes. Even then they may not even be paying enough attention to their finances to notice.
And even if they express disapproval they will vote or not vote in the same manner because the other side is worse or both are bad.
Which is the exact same as approving it.
This is exactly what happens with democratic societies. Majority somehow can decide for the rest of sane people how to live, behave and be quiet when you think differently. People have been trained to stick with a herd. Anarchy has a lot of advantages to it. Individual decisions matter as long as you apply Non Aggression Principles. Anarchy doesn’t mean no rules, but no rulers. People don’t create wars, governments do. Government robs you by the way of taxation for everything and then create crazy national debts and tax you even more (tarrifs). The previous ruler (Biden) brought all these migrants over and current Mango Mussolini created a solution enforcing real IDs, biometric scanning, total surveillance of your personal wallet. Soon enough CBDC will be introduced. There is no deep state, there is only the state and two party illusion.
This is exactly what happens with democratic societies
No. This is what happens when you have two sides, both too large to really represent anyone, battling for a sliver of majority using increasingly diverging views and then exercising as much power as they can before the roles flip again.
In an actual democracy representatives of the people, with many differing views, sit down together and decide case by case on a solution that most can be happy with.
Someone will always disagree with any decision when we live in a large society, but a functioning democracy is the closest thing we have ever come to making sure that as many as possible are happy (and more importantly get a say).
Unfortunately exactly this outcome is the inevitable result of a FPTP voting system combined with political parties. The most stable arrangement of such a system is a two party system, and once it reaches that point the winning party becomes the one willing to take the most extreme position from the other party.
The only way to fix this is to do away with FPTP and replace it with a proportional voting system that will allow for multiple political parties to be viable and encourage the major parties to seek moderate positions rather than extremes.
Absolutely agree! First past the post will always drift toward larger and less representative parties. Even proportional representation can have this tendency, but it is much more resilient.
People can disagree and coexist.
Indeed! And they do under representational democracies. In a community there will always be some sort of law or code, whether written or not, that some members of that community disagree with.
I didn’t vote in “selection”. Cause I can’t let someone else to decide how I should live. Involuntarily taxation is theft. No victim - No crime!
Wow, we got ALMOST half of America to understand that it’s bad when presidents send the military to threaten Americans.
That almost makes me think our inevitable decline as a nation will happen slower than I originally thought.
That’s because there are hundreds of millions of racist fascists here.
These are some depressing numbers.
47% of U.S. adults disapprove of of deploying the Marines to LA, with 34% approval.
45% disapprove the National Guard deployment, while 38% said they approve.
… An equal share — 45% — also disapprove of the protests against ICE, per Monday YouGov polling.
36% said they approve of the protests, and 19% said they are not sure.
58% of Democrats said they approved of the anti-ICE protests, compared to 15% of Republicans.
58% of Democrats said they approved of the anti-ICE protests, compared to 15% of Republicans.
I wonder how does it compare to previous iterations of large protests.
Less than the majority is depressing, but don’t forget how the media is covering this. MAGA eats this shit up, obviously, but even your standard semi-informed people are getting “riots on the street of LA” bullshit on their local news outlets.
I’m actually a little surprised it’s “almost half” in disapproval, given how badly this is covered. I wonder if TikTok and Bluesky are helping, the latter being obvious but the former being surprisingly good at showing what’s actually happening on the ground-- at least a lot better than Meta and X options.
Yeah, also even though it’s “almost half” there’s more people saying disapprove than approve, so there’s a large number in the “unsure” category right now, and the more we find out about who’s being deported and how and what the cops will do to suppress these protests the more that disapprove number will go up
america has lost the war on stupidity.
Theyve been waging a war on education for decades
well, they won.
If a majority of Americans approve then the problem will not go away if Trump goes away.
That every American doesn’t approve of Trump’s handling of protests is shameful.
That every American doesn’t approve of Trump’s handling of protests is shameful.
Quite the contrary. But looking at your post history, I wonder whether you accidentally said the opposite of what you meant.
I meant that it’s shameful that not all Americans disapprove of the Trump fascist regime. I seem to have been grammar challenged.
I disapprove of his existence.
