Two-thirds of Americans say that the country is “pretty seriously off on the wrong track,” while just under a third say the country is moving in the right direction, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel.
Overall, Americans seem unhappy and anxious, with a slim majority saying the economy has gotten worse since President Donald Trump took office and majorities saying that both major parties and the president are out of touch. A majority of Americans are also growing increasingly concerned over the government shutdown.
And just like that…nothing changed.
Yeah, turns out polls are aren’t magical incantations that instantaneously change things.
Well, what are you guys gonna do about it?
I’m mad as heck and oh look new Netflix series!
A new Netflix series powered by AI you say??
There was the never-ending Seinfeld episode…
Typical
What’s it about?
I was watching
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2070791/
" a group of revolutionaries seek to drive out a tyrannical militia that’s taken over the former United States of America."
as if
Huh, netflix doesn’t offer that in it’s American region.
It’s a bit obscure I guess, I found it on DVD while thrifting, I never heard of it before. I enjoy these types of shows. Another series that’s in the vein of the fall of our infrastructure is Jericho. Recommend.
It’s about a quirky and woke person standing up against a thinly veiled metaphor for oppressive society, overthrowing their wealth and power but doing so in a loving and peaceful way, then acquiring the same wealth and power, but like in a good way because they’re the good one.
I dunno why but it’s just really hitting the spot rn
If the last 10 years have proven anything, it’s that Americans are REEEEEEAAAAALLY fucking stupid.
Whether the majority of America disapproves of this fascist or not, it’s a nation of dimwits and we’re going to keep voting against ourselves. It’s why we’re here to begin with. Trump didn’t make any of this happen. He’s a fucking idiot. We did it to ourselves, because too many of us are beyond stupid.
Sorry for being a downer, but I expect this ship to keep sinking for the remainder of my life. I’ve seen too much stupid to believe otherwise.
70% literacy rate or so. But I also quit giving a shit, America is done.
I’ve stopped caring, since the planet is boiling anyway.
America has Dorian Grey’d itself, and now the painting is dumping all the trauma back. The world isn’t far behind.
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We need to start impeaching and recalling every damn politician up the chain until we have people who will fucking do something.
I think we maybe need some strikes or something. Shut off the treat faucets for a couple days.
Most Americans say country is on the wrong track, blame Trump for inflation, disapprove of the president and say he is going too far to expand power of presidency
Democrats: “Oh shit, this is actually working, quick, find 8 fall guys to let the budget pass!”
(yes, that is really happening- 8 democrats have broken with the party and said they would be willing to vote for it.)
I don’t see any news to corroborate that claim. Link?
Sure. First one that came up for me was https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5584077-democrats-snap-funding-shutdown-concerns/ I can’t find the original article the person linked when I saw it, the politics channel of that discord is… uh, lets go with ‘busy’ lol
Thank you!
Sounds like the centrists are starting to lose their nerve once their constituents start suffering. That is one of my theories of how the shut down ends.
We have been on the wrong track for decades. Luckily Trump lit that wrong track on fire and strapped us in while accelerating towards a pit of despair
We have been on the wrong track for decades
What does this even mean? When did we start going down the “wrong track”?
Ronald Regan
So all presidents since Reagan have been the same?
What is with this obsession with trying to normalize the Trump presidency?
Reganomics and the neoliberal policies that were born from Regan destroyed America and possibly are going to destroy the EU too. https://today.duke.edu/2019/01/road-trump-began-reaganomics-loss-middle-class-economist-says
I get your point but I don’t think that was his intent.
I may be naive. If so, I’m sorry.
Two inflection points:
1.) When every Confederate politician & officer wasn’t hanged by the neck until dead.
2.) When Nixon wasn’t prosecuted for Watergate.
Since bush that I can remember, but probably before that.
Regan. The person you’re thinking of is Regan.
The person you’re thinking of is Regan
Leave her out of this, please. Blame Captain Howdy, not the girl.
I guess we can see where the old captain is right now…
Johnson
Andrew Jackson
In the beginning, America was discovered. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
A lot of slaves would agree with that.
Sounds scientific.
Oh Democrats definitively are out of touch, but to compare that to how the
RepublicRepublicans are out of touch is slightly disingenuousGotta get past that whole “Two-thirds” because it’s that one-third that voted for him and elected him to office.
But will they vote or just shrug it off as politics as usual
Ah the inevitable Find Out, eh?
If only there was another option of someone else to vote for last election. Oh well…
/s
At the same time, even more Americans say the Democratic Party is “out of touch with the concerns of most people in the United States today” (68%) than Trump (63%) and the Republican Party (61%).
Hope people are noticing this tidbit. People don’t like Trump but they don’t like what they perceive to be the Democratic party more. If you dig into that, it’s extreme positions on things, not how corporate we are. In fact, one of the takeaways is that we should bash billionaires less in public because the average voter considers them to be successful and good for the economy.
We gotta change gears entirely, what we’ve been doing the past 10, 20 years has been disconnecting us from voters.
‘Dems are more disconnected than the Nazis’
Jesus fucking christ.
If democrats weren’t so against our right to bear arms, more people would vote for them. I know so many people that won’t vote for them for that reason alone.
The down votes only show ignorance to the issue. I’m not affected if we can’t buy guns, I’m pointing out hard observations.
Democrats are agasint the 2nd Ammendment? That’s a new one.
Democrats wanting to work within the 2nd Ammandment to regulate a “well regulated militia” is another story.
The framing of Democrats being against the 2nd Ammendment is right wing (and the now defunct Russian fund pipeline: NRA) fear mongering.
Tell that to all the gun nuts. That’s the first thing they bring up and there’s no reasoning with them.
I’d disagree with you arguing it’s not that big of an issue but I remember in the 2020 primaries when Beto O’Rourke said “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47”
-That shit resonates with the opposition and it’s not something easily forgotten by people who care about guns’ rights.
I had two people mention guns being the reason they won’t vote Democrat today since the vote is tomorrow. They all believe if democrats win, they will take away their right to buy semi automatic guns.
Most Americans won’t do shit about it. They’ll roll on their back and expose their belly. Nothing will change and America will fall.
Its gonna get a lot worse but then it all be unimaginably better mark my words
You must be in the 1%
No i mean we’ll beat colonialism in the end
