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Americans Are Angrier & More Frustrated Than Ever: 19 Furious Facts
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The American Dream blog,
Have you noticed that people are becoming angrier? You can see it everywhere – in our homes, in our schools, in our workplaces, in our television shows, in our movies, and certainly in Washington. In fact, many have said that there is an “epidemic” of anger in America today. And it is undeniably true. As you will see below, a whole host of surveys and opinion polls show that America has become a seething cauldron of anger and frustration unlike anything that we have ever seen before.
As a nation, we are more divided than we have been in decades, and economic conditions continue to deteriorate. People are working harder than ever and Americans get less vacation days than anyone else in the world, but median household income keeps going down every year. Americans are dissatisfied with their relationships, their jobs, their communities and their political leaders. There is this growing sense that our country is steamrolling toward disaster, and yet there is very little agreement on what the solutions to our problems are. Instead, blaming others for our problems has become a new American pastime. The very fabric of our society is coming apart at the seams and the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is beginning to disappear. What is America going to look like if we continue to go even farther down this road?
The following statistics come from various surveys and opinion polls that have been conducted recently. Without a doubt, these numbers show that Americans are angrier and more frustrated than ever…
#1 65 percent of Americans are dissatisfied “with the U.S. system of government and its effectiveness”. That is the highest level of dissatisfaction that Gallup has ever recorded.
#2 66 percent of Americans are dissatisfied “with the size and power of federal government”.
#3 70 percent of Americans do not have confidence that the government will “make progress on the important problems and issues facing the country in 2014.”
#4 Only 8 percent of Americans believe that Congress is doing a “good” or “excellent” job.
#5 Only 4 percent of Americans believe that it would “change Congress for the worse” if every member was voted out during the next election.
#6 60 percent of Americans report feeling “angry or irritable”. Two years ago that number was at 50 percent.
#7 53 percent of Americans believe that the Obama administration is “not competent in running the government”.
#8 An all-time low 31 percent of Americans identify themselves as Democrats.
#9 An all-time low 25 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans.
#10 An all-time high 42 percent of Americans identify themselves as Independents.
#11 Barack Obama’s daily job approval numbers have dipped down into the high thirties several times lately.
#12 Only 38 percent of Americans approve of the way that Obama is handling the economy.
#13 60 percent of Americans believe that the “economic system in this country unfairly favors the wealthy”.
#14 70 percent of Americans do not “feel engaged or inspired at their jobs”.
#15 Two-thirds of U.S. teens “admit to having anger attacks involving the destruction of property, threats of violence, or engaging in violence”.
#16 36 percent of Americans admit that they have yelled at customer service agents during the past year.
#17 73 percent of Americans believe that Obama’s efforts to “reform” the NSA “won’t make much difference in protecting people’s privacy”.
#18 77 percent of Americans believe that the state of the economy is either “not so good” or “poor”.
#19 65 percent of Americans are either “somewhat dissatisfied” or “very dissatisfied” with the direction of the country.
Are you starting to get the picture?
We have never seen anything like this in the United States during the post-World War II era. People are fundamentally unhappy, and that has tremendous implications for the future of our society.
So what is causing all of this anger and frustration?
Well, of course the economic struggles that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing on a daily basis play a huge role. The following is an excerpt from a recent local Fox News report…
Some are describing this as “America’s anger epidemic.” And there are a few reasons: uncertainty in the job market and the economy, working long hours — on average about one month more now than they did in the 1970s and with less vacation.
So if it seems like Americans are angrier these days it’s because we are.
And it is easy to understand why people are becoming increasingly frustrated with the incompetence and rampant corruption in Washington D.C.…
Grim findings have been coming thick and fast. Most Americans no longer see President Barack Obama as honest. Half think that he “knowingly lied” to pass his Obamacare health law. Fewer than one in five trust the government in Washington to do what is right all or most of the time. Confidence in Congress has fallen to record lows: in America, as in Italy and Greece, just one in ten voters expresses trust or confidence in the national parliament. Frankly straining credulity, a mammoth, 107-country poll by Transparency International, a corruption monitor, this summer found Americans more likely than Italians to say that they feel that the police, business and the media are all “corrupt or extremely corrupt”.
Americans are also turning on one another. Since 1972 the Chicago-based General Social Survey (GSS) has been asking whether most people can be trusted, or whether “you can’t be too careful” in daily life. Four decades ago Americans were evenly split. Now almost two-thirds say others cannot be trusted, a record high.
In addition, there are certainly other reasons why people are so angry these days as well…
The “Knockout Game” grows more popular. Athletes throw tantrums that would embarrass most 3-year-olds. Race relations simmer at a constant near-boil, while our leaders engage in enough posturing and name-calling to look more like a modern version of “West Side Story” than the servant-citizens who should inspire peace and mutual respect.
So what do you believe?
Why do you think that Americans are so angry and so frustrated these days?
Is there anything we can do about it?
And how bad will the anger and frustration in this country get when the economy completely collapses?
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Damn. Survived LA and been to two county fairs! Man of the world, we have here.
More of Michael Snyder's idiotic fear porn. < y a w n >
It's a pity that ZH posts so much of this asshat's blathering. A shame.
I'm waiting for Michael's moral lectures on what Heaven is like or why we must all have Fundamentalist haircuts to be posted on ZH, perhaps those will soon be next...
Yeah, I'd say that there's a definite need for Adult Supervision everywhere inside the beltway. People are upset because there is no more middle class. I know, because I was a kid in the 60's, when there was a middle class. Middle class means mom doesn't have to work and can stay home with the kids. I'm sure that the young families living on my block believe that they are middle class. They are not. Both parents have to work and most are in debt with credit cards. That is not my experience of middle class life.
I won the bet. When I saw the title, I KNEW it had to be a Mike Snyder article.
I'll bet if I can cherry-pick my facts and stats, that I can come up with totally believable creatures with magical powers. I shall call them Unicorns, Easter Bunnies, Santa Claus, Hobbits, and man-ridden dinosaurs.
What!? It's been done already? And people actually believed that?
Q. Then why don't they stand up and do something about it?
A. Because 97% of 'Americans' are brain-dead serfs.
The idiots are too lazy and too stupid to unplug TV. Morons.
"America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
Claire Wolfe
All those questions and nothing about the financial criminals that have stolen the US future?
I am more fucking furious about that than most of their lame questions. AssHats.
Was Jaimie asking the questions?
Thanks for providing something sane...
what about 90% of americans are tired of supporting israel
Americans aren't just fatter, slower & more stupid but they're pissed too!
Analysis Paralysis..
My EBT card didn't cover love. Which state are you in?
and he left out well armed. and the smart ones are moving. guess where
Where?
To other continents?
Household cats are funny because they are arrogant self-centered and profoundly unintelligent, but feel a sense of unlimited entitelment. The EBT crowd are like cats. The cats are unhappy if not fed, The guy feeding a room full of cats is unhappy. The Swiss landlord named Rothchild is happy he does not live near you. The danger is if you eventually think you can vote for a dogcatcher to fix things. Pity the poor cat when it discovers its owner has left and it can not open cans.
Do cats rampage through malls?
Only when wetted down held by the tail and stroked backwards
BEAUTIFUL !
And this is different than household dogs, how?
Farm cats CAN survive on their own.
That said, I'll take my dog. (though the wild feline critters aren't anything that I'd even want my dog exposed to)
A bit of a caty remark, but I dogidly agree with you. Watch out for cat zombies wearing hope and change t-shirts.
I was mad but now I got Obamacare.
You pissed now?
get some medical weed? Is that what calmed you down?
This article makes more sense if you replace the word "angrier" with the word "stupider".
"I will bring fundamental change to America" - Bath House Barry
mission accomplished.
You forgot the path of sociopaths before him (unless, that is, you're only plugging as a Party Pussy).
#'s 8, 9, 10 aren't necessarily a bad thing though.
who cares what the bottom 99.999% thinks ... the top 0.001% thinks everything is just peach.
I'm not sure when it was but not too many years ago I saw a study in which people were asked how much money it would take for them to kill someone they didn't know if they were guaranteed there would be no consequences and for 80% of the respondants the magic number was $10,000.
And that was a few years ago. My guess is that now a sizeable % would happily do it for free just for the hell of it as long as there was that no consequences guarantee.
If you can read this and are mad as hell, junk me!
I hate to say this but I junked you just to make you happy. I am #4, in your trunk.
OK, I'm #5.
Most all of this comes back to those "damn algoirthms" as if they don't line up, just like they do on the markets, you get denied access to something. I'm hoping folks are startting to realize that politicians have no control over the code running on servers 24/7, the banks and the auditors are in control, nobody else.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/02/those-damn-killer-algorithms-keep...
And what do we get to appease us...a virus bottom feeder like Facebook to where we can just lash out and tell everyone all about us..and they sit there and collect the data coming in and wirite more algorithms to determine what you will read, what shoes up in your time line, and the idiots on Wall Street over valuate it and whoopee..and now Facebook has a partnership with Barclays bank in the UK with a start up company to teach people how to use the internet and write code..they both want cheap code that spoofs and collects data for sale...duh?
If you have not seen this, and Larry Ellison may not be your favorite but he did good with a keynote at the HCM event Oracle had. Compared to Zuckerberg we at least have age and maturity with Larry. well most of the time:)
”Be Careful About Virtual Relationships With Artificially Intelligent Pieces of Software That’s Smarter Than You“, It’s Really All About People”
So there you go the Facebook crap...sofware that's smarter than you that is supposed to appease us while all the fraud and corruption goes on...go to the Q and A and I put the minures you can forward to if you don't want to hear the entire lecture which might bore you if you are not in HR...Q and A is the good stuff be nailed it and it also bothers him to see kinds with noses stuck in cellphones playing games all day too...this was good. He talks about the same stuff as I do and that's where folks can't tell where the virtual world leaves off and the real world values are today..the Facebook bottom feeding data sucker makes it worse. Microsoft and Oracle created software that gave us efficiencies and helped and didn't suck our data out to resell us...PBS tonight.."The Like Generation"..
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/02/larry-ellison-ceo-oracle-hcm.html
How many avatars on ZH are real people?
The posts and most of the comments here read like AI, in my mind.
As a computer scientist I find the BOTS on ZH boring as fuck.
Ask yourself why you are spending all this energy to post these posts, if this website is such a bore. I bet you can't go there and answer that.
90% of the real people had they're eyes stabbed out with crobar's and there brain's bashe'd in with screwdrivers'.
I am a agrarian, a scientist computer and world skirmisher. And modest. When I grew up in Baltimore in 1647 if you looked at a horse sideway's it'd KILL YOU! Same as know and no thing changes. When I grew up in New York in 1870 VIOLENCE!!! Now my Tahitian lover eats Pop Tarts and I need micro-waves. Tell the neighbors!
Bullish for satire. Well done.
Peak electricity is coming. Bad systems fail. Rather than get angry and fight against that which will eventually fall I just look to stay away from falling debris and look toward what I believe (not what someone else or some "book" TELLS me). This mindset and my great dog allows me to sleep very well.
#13 60 percent of Americans believe that the “economic system in this country unfairly favors the wealthy”.
There is nothing wrong with the sytem but there is everything wrong with Obama and these Wall Strret Whores.
Nothing wrong with a system that's based on perpetual growth on a finite planet?
And when those Wall Street whores were weaving all those bubbles during Obummer's terms was it all Obummer's fault?
From shallow minds...
This is in large part why the Federal government, notwithstanding the money certain agencies make both by maintaining the ban and selling it covertly, will move to legalize marijuana. Of course there's more revenue in legalizing, regulating and taxing it, both for the feds and the states.
If Occupy, for example, has any sort of resurgence, handing out joints at the rallies will both keep them from throwing molotovs, and make them easy to dismiss as hippie potheads {and they can always find a dude holding a sign regarding 'Jewish bankers' in order to also smear the whole thing as "antisemitic"}.
Anyway, Snyder does good work but is so deeply embedded in the world of the "alternative press" [while being, understadably, sure not to ever name those who may not be named as a major part of the globalist, corporatist, warmongering fuckery, including the crime of 9/11 which enabled so much of it] that his assessment of middle America, and of Joe Sixpack is distorted to the point of wild inaccuracy.
People in the inner cities do not know a thing and wouldn't give a particular fuck if they did so long as the government subsidizes their extant lifestyle. And the average white suburbanite believes the 9/11 narrative, and worries about being killed by Al Qaeda, and not about being killed by PTSD, Israelified police, or the ostentatious assaults on civil liberties which The One has made the hallmark of his regime.
More simply put, most people ar enot only clueless, if given the choice, they'd swallow the blue pill. Indeed, I find myself wishing I didn't know what I know - in essence because it doesn't matter that I know it.
And having access to legal weed will certainly make it easier to switch to the blue pill. The rest of the world can burn so long as I'm high and getting a blow job. Just leave me alone in my own house, let me eat that fake steak, and you can round up all the troublemakers you want...
Mr. Cocknballs, what line of work are you in, if I may ask? Oh, and good post!
I agree with him about the blow-jobs, but nothing beats a good rib eye
Mr cocknballs is joined to the hip with synder, siamese twins sharing common asshole
ALT my ass, there is NOTHING on ZH that is ALTnerative, ... its all mainstream LIMBAUGH-BECK bullshit. ZH is, a right-wing site, and they label stupid as ALT, retard as LEFT, and smart as RIGHT THOUGHT.
Want ALT, go to Noam Chomsky, ...
I have book marked Chomsky.info. Thanks.
ALT-PRESS is like NOAM CHOMSKY
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THe 911 truthers are tin-foil fuck-heads, synder is such, ..
But please cockNballs, if your going to use BIG words like ALT, then please for gods sake understand what they mean.
911, JFK, .. that's all tin-foil hat conspiracy bullshit MANUFACTURE by the CIA, to keep hairlips stupid.
What you call ALT is what CHOMSKY call's "Manufacturing Consent"
ALT-PRESS is not controlled by GUBMINT. ZH is AIPAC, ergo GUBMINT.
911 bullshit is GUBMINT mindfuck.
Real ALT-PRESS is real truth, ... and start with CHOMSKY and move forward to Carrol Quigley.
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Easy to see there is only 3 ... news
1.) BULLSHIT- CNBC, .. ZH, ... NYT
2.) CRAP - 911, jfk, ...
3.) Truth - CHOMSKY
1&2 are AIPAC propaganda, only #3 is ALT.
Just like SOROS, he tells the TRUTH and AIPAC & ZH hates him.
Go eat a bullet.
911, TPTB "let it happen". Do you buy that theory?
Larry Silverstein sure made out.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/04/10/insurer-caps-wtc-demolition-asbe...
Danke.
"People in the inner cities do not know a thing and wouldn't give a particular fuck if they did so long as the government subsidizes their extant lifestyle. And the average white suburbanite believes the 9/11 narrative, and worries about being killed by Al Qaeda,..."
Don't go by first impressions. I move in both circles. Set an average person from either scene down and get them talking long enough, and keep moving them past pat anwers with another question, and sooner or later they'll come out with some version of "You know what? We need a revolution."
I don't put it in their mouths. I never put it in their mouths. But you know what? It's there.
One more thing. Almost everyone believes the problem is all those other stupid people out there who believe all the happy horseshit they're being fed.
We've got an emperor's new clothes moment coming.
60% of ameriKKKans are parasites on FED-FIAT dole,
who the fucking hell is going to call for revolution until the USD becomes worthlesss?
NOBODY
There may be 60% on 'FED-FIAT' dole but half of them are illegals from across the world.
They look at the US taxpayer as mama's teat.
The USD is in no danger of becoming worthless... at least for the foreseeable future. When the SHTF everybody will want them.
http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/inflation-vs-deflation-part-1which-on...
I think that it's a mixed bag. There's a LOT more people who do know what's up. And there's a LOT of people who are dumber than a box of hammers (thoroughly brainwashed) when it really comes down to objective thinking.
Most of these polls and whatnot are tools to keep us all divided. The aim is always to keep us from talking about ANYTHING (even how "we hate each other") than about something such as: If our complete economic model is built on a faulty premise (perpetual growth on a finite planet) and is guaranteed to fail then what should we really be concerned with?
I move in both circles as well. And I've had those conversations. People are waking up to the fact that we are getting screwed.
I basically liked your post (as I usually do), but...
I have to wonder whether there's just a lot of people that aren't going to pull the lever (that operates the trap door to all this madness) because they have no idea on what would come next. And, really, there's very little that anyone can do. I'd further state that I wish that people would STOP trying to "solve" shit, as most attempts to solve something are based on incomplete knowledge of the situation anyway (and even those thinking themselves all-so-enlightened I could readily challege as having the same flaw). Yeah, people just don't seem to make any big changes or pushes unless absolutely necessary; and in that case the very notion of the "like another Peal Harbor" wasn't so sinister...
I don't believe that ignorance is bliss. I also don't believe that there's anything such as a "solution" (except maybe death, as nothing is permanent): best is to be able to adapt to changing situtions; and it's this reason why anyone suggesting some boxed theme/ideology/framework won't receive my attention.
wtf? can we all just be happy? can we just go back to the "good ole days" when $5 bucks was a lot of mullah? gas was less than a dollar? pussy was hard to get, but worth it? didn't have to carry my Glock 36 when i go to the movie with my family? didn't have to want to climb through the screen to machete some dickhead to death on CNBC? hate the word "government, Repugnacan, or DemokRats? didn't have to get my ballssssssqueezeddddd by some big minority dyke in a TSA clown suit @ the airport? have phone sex that wasn't a monage-a-trois with the NSA listening in? yeah, can we all just be happy, again? :)
Population size got bigger and resources got smaller. Pretty standard equation going on, one that's been recorded quite well by history.
I enjoyed this post of Snyders more. I don't watch crap like the Grammy's, but might start........
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/katy-perry-illuminati-priestes...
@ Satoshi....
Oh yes, Asians are just so wonderful with their children! Indians still murder their girl babies - as of 2011 there were 919 girls born for every 1,000 males, translating to 3 million "missing" girl babies in the decade ending 2011. In China, there are currently 25 million young men who can't find wives. There are plenty more stats to quote, but it's too depressing, and you should get the picture.
I guess the moral of the story is that in Asia children are well taken care of if they're allowed to live?
Meth heads make the best parents, as seen in Breaking Bad.
Fuck INDIA, and the ZH bot's that work there. It's a caste society, in INDIA a woman costs less than a condom. India is fucked, probably from British BS.
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Nobody has any problem finding a wife in CHINA, they just go to Myanmar, Laos, or Vietnam and get one.
The child limit was NEVER for the village, only in the city.
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In the city's women that went over the LIMIT had to put the baby up for adoption, and they were sold in the west.
Far more 'babys' are murdered in the USA than anywhere else on earth.
Satoshi, so you watch Breaking Bad in Bangalore with your Tibetan wife eating homemade bagels at the age of 70? I am digging your perspective, but you are too funny.
Well Fred, why don't you send some private email, and we talk real, ... but here on ZH, truthiness has a 1/2 life of hours and days.
Only the dumb, stupid, and pathological are immortal on ZH.
Red eyes at morning, sailor, take warning!
And this will be the last post of yours that I ever waste my time reading.
The sky is falling...not
Depends on how perceptive one is... (though, in reality, the universe is expanding, so I suppose that the sky is actually rising)
Pretty sure that the peons on Easter Island were believing that there could be no end to their statue-making activities...
Does Snyder make lists of everything? Does he give his wife a list of 20 reasons why he wants dinner. a list of 25 reasons he doesn't take out the trash? Just once I would like to see this guy write an article that doesn't have a list of 20 things.
I wish he'd provide a list of ways he prefers to kill himself.
(1) nailgun
(2) jump/fall off an embankment
(3) jump/fall off a building
COMING SOON...........Fall into a pit of Vipers, Fall out of an airplane, Spontaneous Combustion, Outrun a speeding bullet(s), Eat the bad end of a BlowFish sushi roll, Weekend in Detroit, catch a cab in Puerto Rico, Forget to take his concrete boots off before swimming in the Hudson, sign up for Obummer Care, etc., etc......
Maybe we should come up with a list of reasons why Snyder should take a break from the lists...
1. The schtick is predictable 100% of the time.
2. The statistics are cherry picked 80% of the time.
3. He can argue anything he sees fit with the predictable cherry picked lists, thus negating the positive effect that any one post might make.
4. His theme is doom 98% of the time. He does not make lists of 10 positive actions we can make to take back our lives and destinies from the Fed.
5. ???
OK, I'll take #5 again.
5. He only lists what he thinks we want to hear to generate hits on his prepper site.
#6. 94.4% of the sentences he writes has at least one word ending in "-ly."
careful what you wish for.
I'm angry and frustrated that this fallen website ZH posts shit from this douchebag Michael Snyder every FUCKING day.
Just ignore it/him then.
I tend to ignore "authors" and just go straight for assessing the message. I'll agree, however, that trends and patterns tend to jade a bit. (maybe gun and ammo sales need a bit of a pump)
I want to impeach Obama.That would make me feel better and would help the world.For what?
1)Benghazi-high crimes and misdemeanors,obstruction of justice
2)IRS abuse
3)NSA surveillance
For starters
Yawn.
Heard the exact same shit with Bush.
Yeah, and up steps Bidden.
IRS is separate from the executive branch: and the IRS, like most all HUGE three-letter agencies, has a life of its own. (NSA: origins with Eisenhower [CIA]- go figure)
I vote aye.
if you were OK with it while Bush was in charge of the corruption, then you have nothing to whine about
HooRah for the gr8 job the arrogant narcissistic pathological lying illegal alien muslim sociopath has done on Amerik.
20. 99.99% of ZH readers no longer read these idiotic repetitive lists..
I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M ........ ooh, I just got a tweet!
I think one of the things that is and will continue to happen is that, as the situation worsens the political and wealthy class will use their powers to hord the power and riches for them selves, a everyone for themselves attitude. At that point the situation will rapidly get worse. One of the requirements of Gov is that it desperately needs to get smaller and spend less.
In a room with all the heads of Gov present, which 35% of the politicians will voluntarily quit and which ones will point to someone else and say you quit, I want to stay.
So as you can see it will get much much worse long before it gets better.
There are no real leaders in Gov today, just liars and thief's.
Bring back the Declaration of Independence!
Good Start!!
Usually when Americans are angry then a country that has nothing to do with it has to pay for it.
Furious that the ammo situation isn't much better than it was a year ago in February, 2013.
At least 50% of these statements are expressing the same thing, just in a slightly different way.
Political oppression/repression tends to piss people off (see the Ukraine).
BTW, our gov't hasn't been working because the gov't (with few exeptions) has abandoned the restraints of the Constitution, which all of these lying bastards from the top on down took an oath to uphold.
Look at 0bozo: now governing by presidential dictates.
What is it with this guy and his "by the numbers" posts?
I'd hate to be this guy's wife. Taped on the fridge, "21 Things You Must Buy at the Store this Weekend."
This list is making me mad!
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