Americans are exceptionally anxious about their political system, according to new international polling from Gallup, a situation that sets the country apart from other rich and powerful nations.
About one-third of Americans rated politics and government as the top issue facing their nation, behind only Taiwan — which faces the prospect of an invasion from China — and on par with Slovenia, Spain and South Korea.
The United States also stands out for the anxiety its younger residents have over economic issues, with younger Americans more likely than young adults in many of the other 107 surveyed countries to say affordability and other pocketbook issues are worrying them
Thats good. It means at least people are reading the moment well.
Yeah…. Finally. I mean, I felt like Jan 6 should have been a really big wakup, but wasn’t somehow
I continue to be floored that so many people didn’t seem to care about that - or even admit that it happened. I watched it live and it was genuinely insane. Like, “oh fuck, this is looking a whole fucking lot like a coup, I wonder if we’ll be a democracy tomorrow” insane.
I feel like everyone paying attention was very awake that day.
The problem is the real winner in every election is “didn’t vote”. Fuck every single person that isn’t voting.
It’s almost like we’ve been watching the checks and balances we were taught would protect us from tyranny fall apart in front of our eyes to a frail, old, nincompoop.
Congress has basically conceded its power to a pedophile. Could that be why we’re so anxious? Or perhaps because the DOJ is allowing laws to be flagrantly violated in public with zero consequences as long as you are aligned with the pedophile and his goals?
Congress has basically conceded its power to a pedophile.
And to a bunch international mobsters relying on the motherfucker not only to have the US collapse on itself but also dismantle the embargoes and subpoenas aimed against them.
Country goes down, they’ll have a field day. Interpol would also become toothless as transnational crimes are no longer pressurized.
I’m not sure “exceptionally anxious” is a sufficient enough term for an actual fascist takeover of our federal government.
I’d go with abject dread.
We will likely not have access to fair elections anymore. Our country is broken.
Yup.
We’re becoming Russia 2.0 and there’s a pretty slim chance of that not happening.
America was warned. America chose not to listen.
Actual fascists are in control of our federal government and under no circumstances do fascists allow fair elections. We’re most likely cooked unless something extreme happens.
What you’re becoming is much worse than Russia.
They own the voting machines now… https://abcnews.go.com/US/dominion-voting-systems-sold-company-run-former-republican/story?id=126378259
They have since 2001, at least. Diebold, who made the original computerized voting machines was owned by Dick Cheney.
😳
You mean the one currently spiraling into “murdering citizens in the street”-level fascism?
This could be the most significant constitutional crisis in American history (outside the civil war lol) but the constitution is in fact very strong and that’s why America has 250 years of legal continuity
Imagine 200 more years of successful EU integration and that’s essentially what America is so there’s a 99% chance it’s not going to collapse or something
But it will be a difficult and desperate and deadly fight but do not fall for the doomerist propaganda everyone needs to get out and help in some way and especially vote because Republicans always lose when people simply go out and vote
Dude they’re literally saying the last Democrat wins were rigged, Trump is talking about nationalizing elections, Bannon wants ICE surrounding the polls…
What are you smoking? If you don’t want to do anything right now, fine. But don’t insult people’s intelligence by pretending anything resembling a normal election is going to happen. Not as long as they are in power.
Yet the democrats just won those elections anyway
You are literally smoking the doomerist propaganda
It’s not going to be normal but neither were the bomb threats in the last election so stop the hysteria it doesn’t help your own cause and it’s the exact reaction they’re hoping you have
You’re hopelessly naive, and this attitude is exactly why if fascism and capitalism don’t kill most of us first, climate change will eventually
Eh, I give the US a solid 40% chance that it won’t collapse within the next 50 years.
YA THINK?
The time to be concerned about the direction of the political system was November of 2024.
It’s quite literally too late to do anything about it now. If Trump wants to cancel elections, there will be much hand-wringing and finger-waggling while congress debates about the legality of such a thing in a committee to no avail and the courts slow-walk any kind of injunction that would preemptively prevent them from doing it before it actually mattered.
Why should any of us be surprised that the guy who tried to subvert democracy once before is brazenly and openly stating his desire to do so again? This result was so utterly predictable that I feel secondhand embarrassment for anybody just now getting anxious about the political system.
National anxiety, the fear of an impending collapse. Aged like wine.
https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375/
Well, then so many of them shouldn’t have voted for it.
Sit out the midterm elections. Let the fascists entrench themselves at the highest levels of govt. Sit out the presidential elections, fully knowing there is a fascist on the ticket not bound by convention, decorum, or restraint with previously proven tendencies to act out fascist agenda that he said he would enact. Let said fascist in office by inaction at the polls. Watch incredulously as he and previously elected fascists proceeds to do just that.
Oh, blame stupid dems.
Ah, there’s that good old fashioned American Exceptionalism!
How many tried to change the system?
The average American commuter is too self-centered to bother voting, and NOW they’re “anxious?”
Too late, Dipshits. You chose fascism.
America ended when citizens united passed, if not farther back. Blaming the voters is facile. If you need facile things, by all means.
Always shift blaming. The system is so trash that a ton of people no longer care. Irresponsible voters are the worst people
