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

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    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.

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      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

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        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