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
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
We should be fearful that this might happen, but it shouldn’t be taken as a foregone conclusion. Something like that might happen, which only means we should be prepared for it
This. Exactly this. Honestly might drop Lemmy until December with all the doomerism here. My OCD can’t take it
What exactly do you find doomerist. Honestly trying to understand what is clouding the judgements of so many people.
Are you willing to tell me what you think is going to happen then? Or you haven’t gone that far and “nuh uh” is all there is?
I think whatever they’ll try won’t work. They’ll be too incompetent and meet too much resistance to pull it off
I mean they’ve already done so much damage without being stopped… your assumption is suddenly they’ll come across resistance that will stop them?
Actually?
Well I hope you’re right but if I was betting on it, I’d bet everything you’re wrong.
Here’s my prediction, and you can make a mental note and see which way things go: MAGA will have to be stopped, as opposed to “resisted”, and this will only be clear to you and like-minded people when November passes and you get one of two things: In inexplicable red wave (less likely) or a strong democrat showing that gets immediately nullified by MAGA crying foul.
For Christ sake they are saying, out loud, recent democrat wins were fraudulent and that they won’t let it happen again. What the hell do you think would happen if they just let elections happen normally and there’s a huge blue wave?
“Oh well, the people have spoken”
Give me a break, honestly. You’re better off staying offline not only for your mental health, but also so that other people don’t get lulled into the false sense of security you have.
Good luck, I honestly wish you well but to insinuate people are being alarmist is not cool. It is alarming. You should be alarmed.
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.