The question asked is: "In general, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States at this time?"
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May 31, 2023
"The 18% of Americans who are satisfied with the state of the nation today is about half of the 35% historical average."
"Gallup has measured national satisfaction since 1979. The lowest reading was 7% in October 2008 during the height of the financial crisis. The high point was 71% in February 1999 during the dot-com boom and after the Senate acquitted President Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial.
Currently, 33% of Democrats, 18% of independents and 4% of Republicans are satisfied."
The question asked is: "In general, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States at this time?"
The question asked is: "In general, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States at this time?"
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A loaded question- some of those unsatisfied are horrified by the destruction and some are horrified the destruction isn’t happening fast enough…
For me, dissatisfied is the wrong word.
I hate the state of the nation. Worst ever.
And all these disasters were completely avoidable.
I think we need a revolution. The power elite have never been so corrupt, out-of-touch, and full of disdain for the average American. Every "Bi-partisan" deal in DC, has almost nothing for the average American. We NEVER get what we want. The Wealthy big Donors do.
And things have never been so bleak for those under 35.
18%? It’s that high?
So 18% is the population percentage of those pushing for the leftist ideology and destruction of the US? Because that is the state of the nation today, and only those wanting self-destruction could possibly be satisfied with it.
Can we vote more than once? I've got a couple of dozen "Hell No's" ready to go here.
Who, THE HELL? are these 18%? are they INSANE? or just america haters?
I am disgruntled. Someone better gruntle me PDQ!
"The 18% of Americans who are satisfied with the state of the nation today is about half of the 35% historical average."
I wrote a comment a day or two ago where I said that half of America is functionally retarded.
I am pleased to announce that recent data appears to show this demographic is shrinking! It's been a long hard slog, and we still have 18% of Americans who suffer under the delusion of reduced cognition, but we're getting there!
@Dave Begley
Amen. Dissatisfied is far too weak a word. The last 30 years, but especially the last 20, have been an unending chain of unforced errors. Errors that will see this country and no small part of the world untouched in coming decades.
We've all seen this movie before. Buckle up.
32% approve of Crook Joe Biden.
Crook Joe Biden will still win. Especially with Trump on the ticket. Christie to jump in and help make that happen.
It’s nothing another 87,000 IRS agents can’t fix.
The 18% satisfied must include all the media people since they make more money off the dissatisfaction.
Big Mike asked about the 18% who were happy with the state of the country.
I should be happy. I'm retired, in good health, have loving spouse, multiple kids, grands, on good terms with friends, family, and neighbors. Nice house, more than enough money to last until I'm 100.
Yet, I'm unhappy, concerned, angry with the state of our union.
I worry about the nation my kids and especially my grands will inherit. Current leaders are consuming the seed corn that made our country great, selling our prosperity while taking a cut for themselves.
The ones who are happy about this state of affairs have no reason to care about the future. That group contains all the non-breeders- homosexuals, transexuals, and the earth worshippers who remain childless because it's a crime against nature to bring a CO2 emitting being into the world who will throw plastic straws into the ocean. Add in the people who actually support the destruction of Western Civilization and I'm surprised it's not higher than 18%.
Talk about burying the lede:
67% of Democrats aren't satisfied with the way their own party is running our nation.
It is mathematically impossible for Biden to be re-elected under those circumstances unless the elections are fake.
So of course he's gonna win.
The cited apogee and perigee of satisfaction would seem to indicate that Americans over the last 40+ years based their opinion mostly on how well things are going economically. Which would confirm the truth of the maxim that long predates 1979: "People vote their pocketbook."
Happiness is distinctly personal in contrast to being satisfied in the general direction of the country. The survey gauges one’s sense of how things out of our direct control are going while happiness is one’s internal choice to be cheerful or not regardless of how the current chaos of the universe is going. Some Judeo-Christian authorities believe we each have a moral obligation to be happy and spread good cheer. People who self identify as religious also consistently express higher levels of happiness than secular or atheist respondents to happiness surveys. Progressives are reliably miserable in the same surveys. Draw your own conclusions from those results.
However that happiness quotient is separate from the opinion on being satisfied with the current direction of the country. I’m a happy Guy every day with everybody but think things are generally going to hell as far as the country’s vital signs show. I’m sure a personally miserable progressive might be satisfied with the country’s direction.
1st comment kinda nailed it succinctly. Nice work rejahim.
Things seemed worse in late sixties.
Dave said, "And all these disasters were completely avoidable."
gilbar said...
"Who, THE HELL? are these 18%? are they INSANE? or just america haters?"
Gosh. Let me see if I can answer that for you;
81 million of the most arrogantly stupid people on the planet. I know that is a lot more than 18%, but the rest are looking at their feet right now hoping you won't notice.
The usual suspects are comically arrogant.
gilbar said...
Who, THE HELL? are these 18%? are they INSANE? or just america haters?"
Grifters. On the government grift.
33% of Democrats? That is an attestation to so many things!
Cappy said...
I am disgruntled. Someone better gruntle me PDQ!
i just want to be whelmed not overwhelmed, not underwhelmed.. Just whelmed
"Fortifying" the 2024 election may be harder than anticipated. Katie Hobbs is doing what she can by vetoing all the election reforms in AZ but not every state has a Soros governor.
Satisfaction was pretty high during the first GWB term.
So, polling is not measuring what they think it's measuring.
The Democrats who are disgruntled probably want more of the same: more queer bullshit, more POC bullshit, more Environmental bullshit, and a lot more money spent on free stuff for favored identity groups.
I’m not quite 50. Growing up I never thought I’d see the state of the country today. Among inflation, supply chain issues, the Covid hoax and general distrust of government, I doubt my daughters will live in the same country. Already some counties are trying to switch states
We are no longer the same nation. That part of America's history is over. We are now a censoring, fraud voting, war mongering, virtue signaling, sexually perverted nation. You now have to judge the state of the nation with a sort of Sodom and Gomorrah lens.
From that point of view, America is kicking ass.
Historically, high levels of dissatisfaction have almost always been followed by change. But that doesn't seem likely now, does it?
Is it cynical to conclude that's because the folks who brought this dissatisfaction also have the power to silence dissent and prevent change?
Only 1/3 of the most delusional people in America are satisfied. Sterling job, Joe!
We're disintegrating as a nation. Our younger people don't know much about history, economics, geography, math, reading, writing. But they can do amazing videos on TikTok and have the right to vote. They think gender is fluid, pronouns are like clothing accessories, and that the country is, at it's heart, a racist, White supremacist run system that is against women, people of color, and anyone who can claim a victimhood of any sort.
They think the Federalist Papers are an option for rolling a joint, the Constitution is an inconvenience that needs to be redone, and that the War of Independence was something done a long time ago by White Christian men for White Christian men only. They think Capitalism is the root of all evil, that Marxism, despite it's last 120 years of history, will somehow save all of us. They know no history before 2015, and think that any statues, monuments, or streets named after any Confederate soldiers from the Civil War should be eliminated and any mention should be removed from speech, books, or thought. They also think the Civil War must have taken place in 1957.
They hate driving and would not mind it if cars were entirely eliminated until we can perfect auto-driven vehicles. They all want to live in Brooklyn. Or at least Seattle, Portland, or Austin. And many of them think that meat is the problem with our planet, which, by the way is doing fine, but they believe we have 5 years to live due to something called 'climate'.
So, yeah. I think we're in a disintegration mode.
They must be all the Alzheimer patients like Joe.
"I hate the state of the nation. Worst ever."
Really? Worse than during the Great Depression?
"...things have never been so bleak for those under 35."
Really? More bleak than during the Great Depression?
rcocean says "We NEVER get what we want. The Wealthy big Donors do."
I wonder "Is the America being created what the Wealthy big Donors want?"
Who could want this? How can they be satisfied? Do they want NYC and San Fransico to descend into barbarism? Do they like tents and drug addicts in downtown Seattle? I watched an addict inject drugs between her toes outside a cute spot where my wife and I stopped for brunch. This is the land of the Wealthy big Donors.
How could they be satisfied?
Are things worse than the Great Depression?
I put it out that the differences make it difficult to compare them. We don't have people dying of simple diseases, and we probably have a lower percentage of people going hungry.
But are they better nourished, being morbidly obese? Are they better educated now? Is our drug problem big enough to be called endemic? Were local, state, and Federal governments as focused on the political divide, being single-minded at the expense of plurality? Was the political environment so friendly and forgiving about bad debt, by that I mean student debt, credit card debt, bad loans, unpaid mortgages, etc? Was there such insistent foreign warmongering during the Great Depression? Was the state of freedom and personal rights better then, or now?
I would say: Some things are worse, today, and it's not even close. The malaise that this poll seems to be plugging into is not imaginary, far from it. And it's almost completely due to bad policy and worse political leadership, with a legacy going back at least 25 years.
Really? Worse than during the Great Depression?
In some ways yes. At least the Great Depression was an acknowledged economic disaster we mobilized against. Joe keeps denying the current government trajectory and spending binge is inflationary. And has done nothing to mitigate it.
Cook: "Really? Worse than during the Great Depression?"
Yes. The work ethic and morality of Americans carried the potential for recovery from the Depression.
Ask we when the budget deal gets signed into law.
""...things have never been so bleak for those under 35."
Really? More bleak than during the Great Depression?"
In long-term prospects, arguably so.
For compare and contrast, try reading The Worst Hard Time.
The Dust Bowl sucked.
But we are experiencing a different windstorm now.
In January 2020 the Gallup Satisfaction Index surpassed 40 percent for the first time since 2005.
Guess where the satisfaction index was in January 2016, at the end of the glorious Obama administration? About 20 percent.
The Dems really do not want us to be happy.
They think the Federalist Papers are an option for rolling a joint, the Constitution is an inconvenience that needs to be redone, and that the War of Independence was something done a long time ago by White Christian men for White Christian men only.
Try asking them who we fought in the Revolutionary War. Then try WWII.
Oh, and Cook; My parents married and I was born in the Depression. There were a few bright spots.
I all comes back to cycles. Bad Times make strong men, Strong men create good times, Good Times make weak men, weak men create bad times.
Cook doesn't understand that the Depression created the men who won WWII.
And the Democrat motto is... "The beatings will continue till morale improves".
Less than 2 years of Biden left folks. Will we survive these beatings?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-rise-of-latino-white-supremacy
Now that we have, The Rise of Latino White Supremacy What will be next?
Southeast Asian White Supremacy?
South Asian White Supremacy?
Arab White Supremacy?
How Long before we have to face the rise of the Dreaded (and Dreadlocked) BLACK White Supremacy?
As We ALL KNOW, whites are the evil problem of the world.. Which means: ALL Evil Is white
---Who, THE HELL? are these 18%? are they INSANE? or just america haters?
Hey, up from 11% when President joBiden assumed office. That's a 64% improvement, man! Jo kickin butt for us. Be grateful, for crying out loud.
Four more years! Let's get it up to 29% satisfied; we can do it!
Serious Question..
HOW, can Anyone with an IRA or 401k be happy with what is happening to this country?
Since Biden became resident, what's happened to your funds? are they up 10%? 5%? 2%?
How much money have you lost in the last two years?
BIII Zhang said...
67% of Democrats aren't satisfied with the way their own party is running our nation.
umm, i think you've got a typo there, your sentence reads much clearer as:
67% of Democrats aren't satisfied with the way their own party is ruining our nation.
"Really? Worse than during the Great Depression?"
Why was it the Great Depression? Because politicians and the media said it was? Why is it not possible we're in a Great Depression right now, and have been since the financial crisis of 2008? What are your criteria for a depression? Can a Great Depression exist even if no one declares it's going on? More importantly, if they work very very hard to make sure they don't call it a Great Depression, would people like you believe them?
It's fascinating. The US has actually been in a technical recession since 3rd quarter last year. If a recession and depression fall over in the woods, but no journalists and economics are willing to tell us about it, do they make a sound?
It's the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Sooner or later everything turns to shit.
Dissatisfied? That's the word they choose?
Try screwed. With very little hope we'll ever pull out of it.
And I grew up in the '70s. The '70s have nothing on the shitfest we're living through now.
Really? More bleak than during the Great Depression?
Yes. Because back then, people wanted it to get better. And hoped it would.
The people in charge now don't. And there's a large portion of the population actually hoping it gets worse.
Robert Cook said...
"...things have never been so bleak for those under 35."
"Really? More bleak than during the Great Depression?"
It would depend on who you are. People like you who get a public pension are relatively un-inconvenienced. But other people who actually work for a living are impacted much worse.
Really? Worse than during the Great Depression?
Really? More bleak than during the Great Depression?
The national debt to GDP ration is considered to be a good measure of a country's ability to pay of debts and maintain stability. The national debt to GDP ratio was was 20% when Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, and raised to 43% by 1939. At the end of WWII, with America having funded not only its own military but also those of the UK, Russia, etc., it was 112%. For Q1 2023, it was 118.8%. Also, the debt per person was $43.7k per person in 2010, it now stands at $94k per person as of the end of 2022.
I would suggest that it is, in fact, worse and more bleak.
It’s great that Republicans have no solution for the problems they’ve created. Just suggested groups to hate. No American is safe from their hate.
Wikipedia sez:
"A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation is thus the collective identity of a group of people understood as defined by those features"
If the USA was ever that, it certainly no longer is.
This survey is like those where congress is held in low regard, but everyone is satisfied with their own representative.
So find a community of like minded people where you can live and be content. And cut loose the rest of the place.
---How much money have you lost in the last two years?
Not nearly as much as you're going to.
Please see the history of extremely overvalued markets.
"Try asking them who we fought in the Revolutionary War. Then try WWII."
Students at George Washington University are opposed the school's teams being called the "Colonials"...
More than 530 students objected to the “extremely offensive” Colonials moniker and claimed it “has too deep a connection [to] colonization and glorifies the act of systemic oppression.”
Apparently, they are unaware that George Washington and his contemporaries were the colonized, not the colonizers.
Those 18% are happy that the chocolate ration has been raised from 25 grams to 20 grams. There was much rejoicing!
hpuddin' is going to vote for Biden again.
HPudding
Democrat party is Hate-create machine.
"People like you who get a public pension are relatively un-inconvenienced."
A public pension? I have never worked for any government entity of any kind or at any level. Maybe you shouldn't confuse your baseless assumptions with reality.
It’s great that Republicans have no solution for the problems they’ve created.
Certifiably insane.
70000! Wow. I wonder how many I've clicked on.
Thank you.
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