25% Americans open to armed action against government

[SmarterthanYou]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...nst-government

Survey of 1,000 registered US voters also reveals that most Americans agree government is ‘corrupt and rigged’

More than one quarter of US residents feel so estranged from their government that they feel it might “soon be necessary to take up arms” against it, a poll released on Thursday claimed.

This survey of 1,000 registered US voters, published by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics (IOP), also revealed that most Americans agree the government is “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me”.

The data suggests that extreme polarization in US politics – and its impact on Americans’ relationships with each other – remain strong. These statistics come as a congressional committee is holding public hearings on the January 6 insurrection.

The survey indicates that distrust in government varies among party lines. While 56% of participants said they “generally trust elections to be conducted fairly and counted accurately”, Republicans, Democrats and independents were dramatically split on this point. Nearly 80% of Democrats voiced overall trust in elections, but that number dipped to 51% among independents and a mere 33% of Republicans.

Per the poll, 49% of Americans concurred that they “more and more feel like a stranger in my own country”. Again, this number reflected sharp political divisions: the sentiment was held by 69% of self-described “strong Republicans”, 65% of self-described “very conservative” persons, and 38% of “strong Democrats”.

Of the 28% of voters who felt it might soon be necessary “to take up arms against the government”, 37% had guns in their homes, according to the data.

One-third of Republicans – including 45% of “strong Republicans – hold this belief about taking up arms. 35% of independent voters, and 20% of Democrats, also agreed, the poll said.

[BartenderElite]

I guess a lot of people had to settle for 60" TV screens instead of 70". It's just so brutal here.

[AssHatZombie]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...nst-government

Survey of 1,000 registered US voters also reveals that most Americans agree government is ‘corrupt and rigged’

More than one quarter of US residents feel so estranged from their government that they feel it might “soon be necessary to take up arms” against it, a poll released on Thursday claimed.

This survey of 1,000 registered US voters, published by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics (IOP), also revealed that most Americans agree the government is “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me”.

The data suggests that extreme polarization in US politics – and its impact on Americans’ relationships with each other – remain strong. These statistics come as a congressional committee is holding public hearings on the January 6 insurrection.

The survey indicates that distrust in government varies among party lines. While 56% of participants said they “generally trust elections to be conducted fairly and counted accurately”, Republicans, Democrats and independents were dramatically split on this point. Nearly 80% of Democrats voiced overall trust in elections, but that number dipped to 51% among independents and a mere 33% of Republicans.

Per the poll, 49% of Americans concurred that they “more and more feel like a stranger in my own country”. Again, this number reflected sharp political divisions: the sentiment was held by 69% of self-described “strong Republicans”, 65% of self-described “very conservative” persons, and 38% of “strong Democrats”.

Of the 28% of voters who felt it might soon be necessary “to take up arms against the government”, 37% had guns in their homes, according to the data.

One-third of Republicans – including 45% of “strong Republicans – hold this belief about taking up arms. 35% of independent voters, and 20% of Democrats, also agreed, the poll said.

considering all the good supreme court decisions that have come down recently, i don't advise fanning the flames of violence.

good is winning on the merits of its own arguments.

might makes right is a luciferian notion.

i do support extreme noncompliance, however.

that is enough to topple the regime.

mass noncompliance with evil is the golden elixir.

[AssHatZombie]

Getting preemptively violent is all the government needs to call us terrorists.

do not fall into this trap.

[archives]

When the Freedom Doctrine was flushed in the 1980’s talk radio and cable infotainment has created a divided America including the loss of faith in American institutions

And nobody is “taking up arms,” as bad as it seems, people have lives, and just living is enough of a task

[archives]

considering all the good supreme court decisions that have come down recently, i don't advise fanning the flames of violence.

good is winning on the merits of its own arguments.

might makes right is a luciferian notion.

i do support extreme noncompliance, however.

that is enough to topple the regime.

mass noncompliance with evil is the golden elixir.

Don’t fool yourself, those “good Supreme Court decisions” didn’t come from “winning on the merits of …… arguments,” it came solely from Mitch playing the game, completely void of merits or principles

[BidenPresident]

Nearly 80% of Democrats voiced overall trust in elections, but that number dipped to 51% among independents and a mere 33% of Republicans.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...nst-government

[AssHatZombie]

Don’t fool yourself, those “good Supreme Court decisions” didn’t come from “winning on the merits of …… arguments,” it came solely from Mitch playing the game, completely void of merits or principles

no. they are decisions in concordance with the constitution.

I know that's a foreign concept to you.

you should make it a goal to rediscover your american civic understandings.

[AssHatZombie]

Remember please, libertarians, the constitution is a GOVERNMENT document.

[AssHatZombie]

government can be ideal if we are steadfast against corruption and corporatism/fascism.

[AssHatZombie]

if you're not an idealist, why have ideas?

[Jade Dragon]

[AssHatZombie]

Nearly 80% of Democrats voiced overall trust in elections, but that number dipped to 51% among independents and a mere 33% of Republicans.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...nst-government

mindless trust isn't a positive trait.

just so you know.

[SmarterthanYou]

Nearly 80% of Democrats voiced overall trust in elections, but that number dipped to 51% among independents and a mere 33% of Republicans.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...nst-government

based on 2016 to 2020, that's a fucking lie

[christiefan915]

25% of Americans are open to sedition.