Discussion: Poll: Majority Of Americans See Nation On The Wrong Track, Believe Things Will Get Worse
If you have to do the āboth sidesā shit at least if you say 70% think things are going in the wrong direction, include 70% of those opinions. Both sides would mean 50 - 50 and it is nowhere near thatā¦ I know this is AP, but just saying.
Most Americans think the country is going in the wrong direction and that thatās going to continue for a while. The rest have their heads up their butts.
Well I donāt know that weāre on the wrong track as bad as the Real Estate surge Bush had, but Like Bush, Donald wonāt do the right thing or probably anything if things do start falling.
Thereās a horrible paradox hidden in these opinions and in the shift on the republican side. Sane people think the country is on the wrong track because of trump, plutocrats, corruption and russia. But now the wingnuts think weāre on the wrong track because Mueller and democrats with a majority in the House.
Whatever is the calculusā¦
The situation will improve by Leaps and Bounds when Drumpf is removed from Office
(Think V-E Day type of feelings)
The problem is always that we also fundamentally disagree on what the right track is, or would be.
Itās always the 27-28% mark. The same percentage of people in Illinois who voted for Alan Keyes over Barack Obama for Senate. I like to call them the ācrazies.ā
Iād bet some of these respondents believe the country is going in the wrong direction due to the Democrats gaining majority status in the House and the Resistance finally getting some teeth in it.
- The sun revolves around the earth
- France is in Asia
Those folks.
A large majority of Americans say they are pessimistic about the state of the country and few expect things will get better in the year ahead, according to a poll released Tuesday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
You elect the love child of Daffy Duck and Al Capone and expect any better than this?
You forgot ābirthed in the Great Pumpkinā.
āAll they do is fight. If one party thinks itās good, the other thinks itās bad. If the president thinks itās good, the party opposed to him thinks itās bad,ā he said of the nationās leaders. āThey donāt do anything for the people.ā
āThe party opposed to himā. Nice. I bet he was all in favor of the party opposed to āhimā from 2008 to 2016.
To the larger point. I wish the AP would go back 6 months or a year from now and ask these people if their viewpoints have changed w/r/t the economy.
There is a relatively easy solution. We have the opportunity in 2020. We shouldnāt get on purist high horses and fail to seize the time.
Americans are probably right to believe that things will get worse. The democracy-damaging techniques pioneered in Hungary at the start of this decade have now insinuated themselves into what TI now describes as "flawed democracies," counties complacent about Gini scores way above .40.
Exemplifying this trend, the CPI scores for Hungary and Turkey decreased by eight and nine points respectively over the last six years. At the same time, Turkey was downgraded from āpartly freeā to ānot freeā by Freedom House, while Hungary registered its lowest score for political rights since the fall of communism in 1989.
These ratings reflect the deterioration of rule of law and democratic institutions, as well as a rapidly shrinking space for civil society and independent media, in those countries.
The US?
With a score of 71, the United States lost four points since last year, dropping out of the top 20 countries on the CPI for the first time since 2011. The low score comes at a time when the US is experiencing threats to its system of checks and balances as well as an erosion of ethical norms at the highest levels of power.
In layman terms, Trump and everybody around him is corrupt.
Which, if we can handle it, may be a good thing.
If we can handle it, i.e. clean up the mess before it gets worse. The accession of Trump has exposed all the crooks, thugs, and crazies better than all the SPLC reports we ever had. They can no longer hide behind the mask of a stolen āconservatismā (in which they never really believed anyway). We know who they are. We know where they are. We know their excuses and tactics.
All we need is the resolve, to show whether or not America is really āexceptionalā, or if our cycle is ending.
"As long as people are making money,ā she said. āAs long as thereās jobs.ā
which never happened under democratic presidents, no siree - according to the republican voters and the media that āinformsā them
I never got the whole Wrong/Right track polling. Someone could think we are on the wrong track because gay people are getting married, or because we arenāt locking enough children up at the border. Others could think its because we do nothing about climate change, etc. How these numbers suggest support or lack of support for any candidate or party makes no sense to me.
Obama vs. Alan Keyes. Keyes was from out of state, so you can eliminate any established political base; both candidates were black, so you can factor out racism; and Keyes was plainly, obviously, completely crazy. Batshit crazy. Head-trauma crazy. But 27% of the population of Illinois voted for him.[5] They put party identification, personal prejudice, whatever ahead of rational judgement. Hell, even like 5% of Democrats voted for him. Thatās crazy behaviour. I think you have to assume a 27% crazification factor in any population.