Article says that liberal Democrats are the most supportive of giving more funding to Ukraine.

Pink imperialism, I see.

Most Americans oppose everything Congress does but that doesn't stop it

I think it's pretty safe to say the 180° heel turn has arrived

A bigger worry across partisan lines in the new poll is that the war will continue without a resolution for a long time. Nearly 8 in 10 are worried about that, including 82% of Democrats, 75% of independents and 73% of Republicans.

The best anti-war line to take is "this stalemate will go on indefinitely, either it ends in a ceasefire and negotiated peace now or after countless more people die." Most Americans already agree with the first half, and the last half follows logically. It also brings out the neolib psychos who talk about the ROI of marching Ukrainians into artillery fire.

Obviously you can oppose the war (especially the NATO role in it) for a hundred reasons, but we already have an in with this one.

Unfortunately:

What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.

libs on lemmy.ml are brigading and downvoting 😂 https://lemmy.ml/post/2808871

wow, i had no idea the majority of americans were ruzzian kremlin hired operatives

This is just a dogwhistle to Zelensky to let him know his time is running out, nothing more.

Oh yeah, that's why they aren't asking us. They just send these aid packages over there willg nilly. Even Pro-Ukraine people are sick of this.

I have only met one person IRL that cared about the war in any real way other than indifference and they had gobbled up the "Russia bad" narrative. I then proceeded to shit on every argument they had till they just stopped talking and changed the subject because they have no actual rebuttal.

I think in the year and a half this has been going on, I am yet to find more than one person IRL who actually cares. Most people don't go any further than a 'yeah, Ukraine' comment. But how could you care when your own groceries have increased 40-50% in price and you can't afford to warm your house.

US aid for Ukraine

Isn't it loan and Ukraine is in huge debt right now? Calling it "aid" is understandable for mass media, but in reality it is just a bank loan.

How many of those polled support war with China instead?