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.
A minimum 1/3 of the US is comprised of Nazis. Nearly every poll shows this.
It never stops shocking me how awful people are. All it took was trump taking the muzzle off for a huge chunk of the country to reveal what shitty people they are.
I think it’s more that a huge chunk of the population have externally defined morality and thus are very malleable. Many many people do not enjoy the hard work of figuring out their own self-consistent views of right and wrong. So they let their culture define it for them, which the people in charge are more than happy to do. So when the prevailing culture told them it was wrong to be racist against black Americans, they believed it. And now that the culture they stew in tells them (e.g.) black Americans are lazy moochers, they believe that.
He still has something like a 43% approval rating. That’s still 100% too much.
You can ask pointed ideological questions to come to whatever conclusions you want in a survey. 1/3 of the US is not Nazis, you obviously either don’t live here or don’t go outside. Nearly every poll does not show this lol.
I mean, I’m not the original commenter and I don’t think they’re literally nazis myself. But ~39% of Americans have stood with Trump through both presidencies. When every poll (popularity, opinions on ICE, shutdown, etc.) seems to land around that same number, it means there is some consistent cohort there.
Many people, and this isn’t just exclusive to the U.S., aren’t racist, but their policy stances have racist outcomes. For instance, people fear crime or the loss or destruction of their property, so almost universally people vote for more policing, despite the lack of evidence that your suburban police department with military equipment makes you any safer.
As Avenue Q says - Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist.
But also, I never said anything about racism. To me it seems like there is a large part of the US that is willing to give up the ideals of our country (due process, free speech, voting rights), if they can get the policies they think they want.
True, and I was just using racism as an example. I guess I also could have just said people regularly vote against their own best interests due to lack of understanding the long-term effects.
I lived in the US for nearly my whole life until I fled earlier this year specifically because of Trump’s (and his supporters’) threats against my communities. His administration is openly composed entirely of Nazis. Anyone who continues to support him is a Nazi, which currently sits at 39%. You don’t openly call for the death of all Latino and trans people unless you’re a Nazi. So yes, that 39% is all Nazis.
Yeah you need to talk to people in the real world, it will do you some good and allow you to re-calibrate your perspective to one more based in reality.
Nobody wants death, as hard as that may be for you to believe. Your conclusion is the one you arrive at when being chronically online and only seeing the worst of the worst (whether true or not or exaggerated partial truths) designed to enrage you to engage and drive algorithms.
Real people are not the political figures you see online, and the stances and beliefs of political figures cannot be automatically applied to every person who voted for them, as much as you might like that. No person is their government or their country.
You have the mindset of somebody looking for a reason why it’s okay to kill 39% of the US population, which ironically gives you something in common with Nazi ideology.
If we keep calling them Nazi’s and they keep calling us radical whatever’s, we just end up killing each other. I think we should not do that.
You need to realize that the things you see and experience are not seen and experienced by other people and vice versa. We’re all operating off of the information we have and our personal experiences. If you had the information and experiences a typical MAGA conservative had, guess what, you’d be a MAGA conservative. Don’t let algorithms and political polarization make you lose your grip on humanity and treat your neighbors like scum.
This shit is why we’re so divided.
“If you had the information and experiences a typical MAGA conservative had, guess what, you’d be a typical MAGA conservative.”
Well POC and LBGTQ people don’t get the privilege of the same experiences MAGA conservatives have. - You live in a bubble
I guess racism and Christian nationalism over a peaceful life for all, is why we’re so divided.