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.

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[–] 204 points 10 months ago (15 children)

It would have been awesome if my idiot fucking countrymen had done the barest scintilla of research and realized that this was always his fucking game plan

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    I don't even know if it requires research to belive that he means the bad things he says. Safe rule of thumb I've found for Republicans is assume they are lying about anything positive and telling the truth about the bad things they want to do.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    'bbbuttt.. Harris said she'd continue bidens policies!! Waaahhhhh! The parties didn't field realistic candidates that matched my expectations! It's the politicians fault!! It's the systems fault!'

    Trump said he'd do much worse, and here we are. Happy yet, sit-outs and ballot spoilers? Ready to take your elections seriously?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Do you really think the media is doing a good job of getting accurate and fair information to voters in an impartial way? Could we improve our electoral system to make it easier and more convenient for working people to vote?

    So maybe instead of blaming people as individuals for failing to meet a systemic and worsening series of problems we should expect that our political leaders have some sort of plan for restoring democracy in a way that combats republican corruption.

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    [–] 79 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    They voted conservative, what did they expect?

    If you want your life to get better, you vote left, if you want it to get worse, you vote right.

    We've got the whole 20th century as evidence of this

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Well.

    It depends on your tax bracket and property values, doesn't it?

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    i'm in the lowest tax bracket, but someday I'll be on the top... 🤦

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    There another option, you believe only the local rich employer can help you.

    Grew up in a small town with only one big employer. If they said bigger taxes would mean layoffs, will the town hated the idea of bigger taxes., because the employer was seen as the only things keeping a respectable and comfortable lifestyle possible in the community.

    Welfare was both inadequate and shameful, and other than that, they didn't see upside to government spending. The big projects they see were things like building a big bypass for a big city to have better traffic. Meanwhile all the infrastructure spending closer to home was less dramatic. The roads thanklessly kept drivable without any dramatic news coverage. The local medical center kept afloat by federal spending without anyone really highlighting that. Easy to make the narrative that big government takes your money and gives it to city folk, and anything the employer does to the community is forced by big bad government.

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    [–] 45 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    A minimum 1/3 of the US is comprised of Nazis. Nearly every poll shows this.

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    [–] 35 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    Then. Do. Something. About. It.

    If there are really two thirds of you, it shouldn't be too hard to stop this shit

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    If you respect the Constitution, then you have to let it play out. A year from now are the Midterm Elections, with Congress on the line. How they behave around that will determine what happens beyond that.

    Will they openly suppress the vote as much as possible? Absolutely, but how far will that go? Do they refuse to sweat in the winning Dems, and illegally keep their majority?

    What if they invent an excuse to suspend elections? That's a bright red line. No election had ever been suspended in American History, not even during the Civil War. For many, that would signal the end of Democracy, and the official beginning of a Civil War, although it would look very weird in the beginning. The first steps would be Blue states refusing to cooperate with the illegitimate MAGA Congress.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

    110% this shit. It'll be a slow but powerful buildup. People just think we're sitting on our fat asses going: "Lol. Whoopsies! Guess we have a Nazi president! Our bad," No! The No Kings protests alone prove we're already unhappy. If they try something as serious as the suspension of an election in this environment? Suicide for them.

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    [–] 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

    Well, what are you guys gonna do about it?

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    And just like that...nothing changed.

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    They did this a lot during the first junta too. Lots of polls as to how disliked he was.

    Didn’t change one fucking thing.

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    [–] 26 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"

    -- maga

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Also want to vote Trump for a third term.

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    We need to start impeaching and recalling every damn politician up the chain until we have people who will fucking do something.

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    [–] 16 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    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

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    [–] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    *Randy looks out the window to see a 93 year old grandmother being slowly chased and tackled by a 340 pound limp-jogging, hyperventilating, otherwise unemployable 32 year old virgin in a balaclava in 90 degree heat and desert camo vest in the middle of the suburbs. His tactical armor vest, which was sold to him with a cardboard plate that he thinks is bulletproof, also has the word "fedirel" spelled wrong on the name plate. On the bottom, he wears Buffalo bills sweatpants with the logo colored in with black sharpie.

    *Randy goes back to polling agency's phone call

    "You know, I'm starting to think the country might be approaching the possibility of entering the wrong track eventually, maybe... If this keeps up for another 12-15 years, things could start to potentially get a little bleak.... Uh huh, no I don't mind sharing that info with you, I am what they call an undecided voter cuz I ain't one a these liberal sheeps"

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    It all came as a surprise. Before the elections he seemed to be so sane.

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    [–] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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.)

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    Oh Democrats definitively are out of touch, but to compare that to how the Republic Republicans are out of touch is slightly disingenuous

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago*

    Gotta get past that whole "Two-thirds" because it's that one-third that voted for him and elected him to office.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Does no one love Jodie Foster anymore?

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    [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    But will they vote or just shrug it off as politics as usual

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