"We The People Are Pissed": New Poll Finds Whites And Republicans Are Angriest Americans

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If Donald Trump’s poll numbers tell us anything, it’s that Americans are angry.

Angry with what they perceive to be government ineptitude, angry with the economy, angry with US foreign policy, angry with just about everything.

The palpable sense of rage has manifested itself in support for dark horse presidential candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders and is also apparent in “incidents” like that which occurred on Saturday when armed militiamen seized a remote government building in Oregon.

Just how mad are Americans? Very, according to a new poll conducted by Esquire, SurveyMonkey, and NBC News. Here’s the preface from Esquire:

WE THE PEOPLE ARE PISSED. THE BODY POLITIC IS BURNING UP. AND THE ANGER THAT COURSES THROUGH OUR HEADLINES AND NEWS FEEDS—ABOUT INJUSTICE AND INEQUALITY, ABOUT MARGINALIZATION AND DISENFRANCHISEMENT, ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO US—SHOWS NO SIGN OF ABATING. ESQUIRE TEAMED UP WITH NBC NEWS TO SURVEY 3,000 AMERICANS ABOUT WHO'S ANGRIEST, WHAT'S MAKING THEM ANGRY, AND WHO'S TO BLAME.

 


LET'S BEGIN WITH THE BIG REVEALS: Half of all Americans are angrier today than they were a year ago. White Americans are the angriest of all. And black Americans are more optimistic about the future of the country and the existence of the American dream. There are depths and dimensions, dark corners and subtle contours to our national mood, and setting aside the issue of who actually has a right to be angry and about what—these pages are neutral territory; everyone is allowed their beef—we found three main factors shaping American rage: expectations, empathy, and experience.

Below, find some of the highlights which include the fact that when it comes to being "pissed", no one is angrier than white people and Republicans. "Overall, 49 percent of Americans said they find themselves feeling angrier now about current events than they were one year ago," NBC writes. "Whites are the angriest, with 54 percent saying they have grown more outraged over the past year [while] sixty-one percent of Republicans say current events irk them more today than a year ago, compared to 42 percent of Democrats."

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Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:32 | 7007065 Soul Glow
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Blacks seem pretty pissed off too.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:36 | 7007095 Fester
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#Cracker lives matter

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:42 | 7007119 Xibalba
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#USAuberalles

Making the Reich great again

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:42 | 7007127 Baby Bladeface
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#PissedFistsMatter

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:45 | 7007149 ParkAveFlasher
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Ghetto people don't riot when they are angry, they riot cuz' dey can.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:51 | 7007163 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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Let's look at the 'opposite' side of this, shall we?

 

According to the premise,... Blacks, Democrats, & Jews are as happy as can be!

 

@SG (Black are only pissed off at their brothers & the white goys in government, notwithstanding whether or not they're capable of making that sort of distinction)

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:52 | 7007191 Bumpo
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Where's the piece of the pie where you vote for 'officials enact policies that the benefit illegal Immigrants and other ne'er do wells"

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:58 | 7007218 two hoots
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Final question:  Should we bomb Agrabah? 

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:07 | 7007275 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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I'm sure the cartoon government would be happy to oblige

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:23 | 7007343 Theosebes Goodfellow
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~""We The People Are Pissed": New Poll Finds Whites And Republicans Are Angriest Americans"~

Ya' fuckin' think!?! Whites and republicans are the best informed, for the most part. And trust me, if you are informed, oh hell yes you're pissed. Back in the 80's there was a cartoon of a little man jumping up and down and the caption read, "If you're not pissed off, you aren't paying attention!"

And that was back when shit wasn't anywhere nearly as bad as it is these days.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:52 | 7007466 SuperRay
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Actually, it was 'if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.'

Mr. Dulles, what about all the discrepancies that exist in the Warren Report?

 

Allen Dulles: "The American People don't read."

 

It's all about the herd mentality.  Obama cries when he bans guns.  That guy is amazing - you get the feeling that he's actually convinced himself about the truth of all the bullshit he spews.  Which, from a psychological point of view, makes complete sense.  Self-delusion is the best way to delude other people.  Hitler was totally convinced that he was the Christ-like savior of the German people.  He believed it with such force and intensity that the German people bought into it.  

 

If you're deluded, you don't have to be pissed off.  You can just go with the flow and feel safe and secure, like a well-feed turkey who has a great life right up to the third week of November...

 

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:58 | 7007491 Theosebes Goodfellow
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You are correct, Super. It was outraged. I'm just foaming at the bit too much to recall clearly. ;)

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 20:08 | 7007817 Four chan
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obama's ans the media's forced diversity is an assault on white culture and since white europeans invented the life we have it's an attack on that. and to that i say fuck that trump 2016

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 20:46 | 7008034 Stuck on Zero
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Feminists are still the angriest group I know.  It takes almost nothing to make them explode.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 23:21 | 7008905 Encroaching Darkness
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OF COURSE we're angry - they've been pissing on our backs and telling us it's raining for decades!

ON the positive side - the urine tests tell me they are diabetic, rabid and prone to incontinence, so there's an eventual collapse to look forward to...

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 20:17 | 7007842 bonderøven-farm ass
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The message has been received.....

....yet, we prefer sanctuary in our unabashed normalcy bias.

We get the government we vote for.

Thu, 01/07/2016 - 00:47 | 7009196 Keyser
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No, we don't... 

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.” 
Joseph Stalin

Thu, 01/07/2016 - 01:51 | 7009347 MontgomeryScott
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In 'OTHER NEWS THAT MATTERS':

85% of myopic, Bush-supporting voters support Paul Ryan's House resolution that McDonald's rename their 'Famous French Fries' made with 'Genuine Idaho Potatoes' to a NEW, GENTLER type of 'fry', cooked with a THOUSAND POINTS OF LIGHT':

'FREEDOM FRIES'.

The Vegas odds are on a Hillary/Cruz 'selection' (with a 'spoiler' about Cruz being born in Canada). Diebold investors (and those who actually write the software) are in for a BIG WIN (either way).

IF Cruz 'wins' the'selection', think of it as a 'Paul Ryan' moment, little one. THINK OF IT! A 'little Jeb', but a Messican/Canaidian one! The NAU comes to fruition (AT LAST!), in opposition to the 'softer, gentler socialism' of the past 16 years! DEUTCHLAND UBER ALLES! Ah! AT LAST, the TSA gets to group-grope, and gun-loving haters are rounded up with 'radical Shiite/Sunniez! A NEW DAWN, in AMERIKA!

Fresh, and pure, and in TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! FUCK the CONSTITUTION (or the E.U.)! We're JEWS In SPACE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAZhtT-dUyo

Those who decide to give up their guns voluntarily to the government are capitulators and active in the totalitarian goal of the eradication of all free people everywhere. (ME, RIGHT NOW)

I really admire Mel Brooks, Keyser,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zpYQJkBQp0

Stalin: Not so much.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:14 | 7007302 olenumbersix
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Answer: yes we should (magic) carpet bomb them! hahaha o' I crack me up.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:06 | 7007266 newbie vampire
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"Where's the piece of the pie where you vote for 'officials enact policies that the benefit illegal Immigrants and other ne'er do wells"

It be in de Happy n No complaint Welcome Banner PC brigade slice.

Thu, 01/07/2016 - 10:35 | 7010921 markpower49
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I hope this is the beginning of economic collapse and cleansing civil war. Blacks and progs need to go.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:49 | 7007170 krispkritter
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...

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:49 | 7007174 NoDebt
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Polar bears might be an endangered species but the caucasian race will still disappear from the earth long before them.

 

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:53 | 7007186 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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so much for money printing then... (Al Gore needs to worry about the Yenta Janet Yellen, NOT carbon emissions)

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:38 | 7007408 Totentänzerlied
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And?

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:42 | 7007425 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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...and... IT's GONE! (link not necessary)

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:45 | 7007431 Escrava Isaura
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NoDebt: Polar bears might be an endangered species but the caucasian race will still disappear from the earth long before them. 


Europeans Caucasian 600 years of greed, while discovering ways to harvest energy from the environment, will be the main cause of most organic beings disappearance, including the polar bear and the Amish.   

 

“As the only animal species that has ever managed to alter the global atmosphere on a scale approaching those oxygen producing bacteria, we should note well the ominous evolutionary message implicit in this massive environmental fallout.” Reg Morrison: The Population Debate—Slide 10.

 

http://regmorrison.edublogs.org/files/2013/04/Population-4b-13rrmif.pdf

 

 

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 19:14 | 7007552 Will To Live
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"NoDebtPolar bears might be an endangered species but the caucasian race will still disappear from the earth long before them. 

Europeans Caucasian 600 years of greed, while discovering ways to harvest energy from the environment, will be the main cause of most organic beings disappearance, including the polar bear and the Amish."

These 2 statements are diametrically opposed.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 19:24 | 7007595 Escrava Isaura
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No. they are not. NoDebt made a scientific observation.

 

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 20:59 | 7008117 skinwalker
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Reg morrison mentions the aerobic bacteria. From a biodiversity standpoint, filling the atmosphere with oxygen was the best thing that ever happened to life on earth. Who's to say mankind won't trigger something similar? 

Thu, 01/07/2016 - 01:42 | 7009322 Golden Phoenix
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Where the hell is the delete post button.

Thu, 01/07/2016 - 01:41 | 7009323 Golden Phoenix
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Thu, 01/07/2016 - 01:41 | 7009324 zaphire999
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Because the white man did it first and you lot didn't know a tree from paracetamol?

You're a laugh a minute.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:46 | 7007128 Ignatius
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They want us to be pissed off at each other when the tension comes from the corporate superclass that doesn't give a rat's ass about working/middle class people as they off-shored American jobs and import H1-B discount workers.

The latest manisfestation is the superclass using the BLM to steal the Hammond Ranch.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:53 | 7007192 TheDanimal
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Lol this is the M.O.: they will keep using wedge issues, especially those regarding race and religion to distract the average Joe. They can be simplified much more easily than financial concepts so they'll gain traction in our lowest common denominator society. This obviously has the added benefit of redirection of the rage.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:54 | 7007196 Chupacabra-322
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Pissed? Then I'm the fucking Hulk. Everyone & their mothers should be Fuckng Raging at the deception being perpetrated upon the American People by the entity called the UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. What ignorant people refer to as "Government."

Its Criminal Fraud CEO & BoRd of Trustees.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:11 | 7007289 newbie vampire
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"Pissed? Then I'm the fucking Hulk."

Well, dun git angry.  Just apply for your licence for de Group Grope, it will cheer you up in no time.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:37 | 7007102 813kml
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"no one is angrier than white people and Republicans"

Good thing there are no white Republicans or else we might be in for a real shitstorm.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:46 | 7007152 Baby Bladeface
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Nothing to give worry when impulsion to agress is directed to ineffective activities as elections.

Vote for anyone and is vote for status quo, so voters must somehow be happy with outcome...

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:46 | 7007153 nuubee
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Speaking of racism. The illegal immigrants and their supporters have stopped ranting and raving as much about Trump "the racist" and his wall as they did months ago. Did they run out of steam, or did they finally realize they're outnumbered on this one?

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:03 | 7007254 newbie vampire
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"The illegal immigrants and their supporters have stopped ranting and raving as much about Trump "the racist""

Perhaps dey came to realize dem politicians ain't talkin about dem but de new Muzzie migrants from diffrent parts of North African Syria which will add greater cultural and religious diversity.

Vote up for Group Grope, evryone wans do it.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:31 | 7007371 Vlad the Inhaler
Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:09 | 7007281 SDShack
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Some ZH poster awhile back said something along these lines.

When black people riot, they destroy their neighborhood. When brown people riot, they destroy their city. When yellow people riot they destroy their country. But when white people riot, they destroy entire continents.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:39 | 7007416 Taffy Lewis
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In his book Government Zero, Michael Savage proposes a new Nationalist Party that stands for the preservation of borders, language, and culture in America. He opines that if put correctly, lots of Democrats would be interested also.

Trump is that Nationalist and it's why he appeals to so many.

Savage's previous book, Stop the Coming Civil War, is also a good read.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:44 | 7007136 JerrySpringer B...
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yea black folks along with most minorities been pissed off for over a century. Now it seems EVERYONE including the suburbians are pissed off too..everyone feeling the brunt of this massive dildo...only color now is GREEN soon to be gold and silver at some point imo...nothing new under the sun now that white folks are pissed off as well maybe we all now realize the elites don't give a damn about anyone but themselves

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:14 | 7007300 SilverDOG
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We all now realize we can not afford pretending to be elite and only give a damn about ourselves.

Fixed it.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:28 | 7007361 Omen IV
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blacks are not happy  - they respond to survey on the basis they are obliged to support obama and not critize him

 

thats all that is going on

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:49 | 7007167 Stroke
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Try imposing the Volstead act again, and see how the self medicators react.....

 

That'll get things started

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 17:52 | 7007187 NoDebt
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Any reference as obscure as the Volstead Act gets an automatic up-vote.  You could have said "prohibition" but you opted instead to reach for the brass ring.

 

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 18:00 | 7007238 Stroke
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I've been drinking

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