It’s nice to know some people are actually awake, and can see what the criminals in Washington and state capitals are doing. Gallup is about the only polling service that isn’t rigged, controlled, massaged, or tells lies. The anger is starting to bubble up, as is the negativity. It’s been 30 years since people were as negative (think Jimmy Carter). And how does the media respond? They are going to focus on the future, not the present. Problem solved. You can’t make this shit up.
Gallup Poll: Americans Most Negative On the Nation And Economy In 30 Years
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/24/2013 15:03 -0500
Via Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
I guess Americans just haven’t heard of a little something called the stock market. Isn’t that right Bernanke? Wasn’t the stock market rally you engineered supposed to make everyone feel all nice and confident? Well the great middle class squeeze continues, as the stock market is for the 1% what food stamps are for the poor. They are just strategies to keep these groups apathetic and obedient. The middle class isn’t buying it though, as is evidenced by this recent Gallup Poll conducted January 7-10, 2013.
From Gallup:
PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. President Barack Obama begins his second term (regime) at a time when Americans are as negative about the state of the country and its prospects going forward as they have been in more than three decades. Fewer than four in 10 Americans (39%) rate the current status of the U.S. at the positive end of a zero to 10 scale. This is about the same as in 2010, but it is fewer than have said so at any point since 1979. As they usually are, Americans are more upbeat in their predictions of where the U.S. will be in five years (48% positive), but this is also lower than at any time since 1979.
The 39% of Americans who give a six to 10 rating when asked to evaluate the nation’s current status is similar to the 37% who said the same three years ago. Prior to that, however, assessments were generally more positive, including a 73% six to 10 rating in January 2001 — the highest on record. The three previous points in time when ratings were as low as or lower than the 2013 rating were in August 1979 (34%), April 1974 (33%), and January 1971 (39%). The 1979 measure came at a time when the economy was in bad shape and inflation was rampant, while the 1974 measure came in the midst of the Watergate scandal. When Gallup first asked the question in August 1959, 68% of Americans rated the state of the nation in the six to 10 range.
What about the future?
The 48% who give a six to 10 ranking when asked to project the status of the U.S. five years from now is tied with the 1979 measure as the lowest in Gallup’s history of asking the question. Additionally, the 40% who give a negative rating (zero to four) when asked to look ahead is lower than at any point in history. These negative ratings include 10% who say the situation of the country in five years will be zero, the worst they can imagine.
Not so much. Don’t worry Bernanke, I’m sure another 50 S&P handles will make everything better.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/160046/americans-downbeat-state-prospects-future.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All%20Gallup%20Headlines
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-24/gallup-poll-americans-most-negative-nation-and-economy-30-years
US Media to Avoid Covering News, Focus on Future
Journalists throughout the US are now reconsidering their roles of being ‘reporters,’ as an increasing number of newspapers terminate their print editions and the viewership of broadcast media outlets continues to decline.
The reason seems obvious: Americans are looking to the future rather than the present.
This was made apparent during the Presidential Election of 2012, when most voters showed little interest in such transient minutiae as the US debt, unemployment, Federal Budget, the Benghazi incident, and ongoing international conflicts. At the same time, Americans seemed increasingly concerned with such long-term objectives as avoiding futuristic climate change scenarios, global population reduction, a lifetime of guaranteed government pensions, collectivized medical care, and even a romantic life of the Obama family.
Journalists are now called upon to make a transition from examining present issues to focusing more on stories that will help Americans envision their new future, as outlined by President Barack Obama. To make socialism and communism palatable.
In his Inaugural Speech, the President explained to Americans what their utmost desires are: a future utopia that excludes all the unpleasantness of the present reality. By providing this new vision of an America without its present, Barack Obama has set the standard for media.
Rising to this challenge, the US media complex must now embrace the new direction – away from the harsh realities and immediate matters of day-to-day life – and to prepare Americans to their upcoming future, which is currently being designed for them by the governmental experts.
At the same time, we in the media need to remind ourselves of our mission as the ‘gatekeepers of truth.’ Our most important work is to ‘chew’ the hard facts for the public, providing our audiences only with the information we know they need to make the right decisions.
President Obama’s reelection has shown us that we have the power to transform America by helping citizens to make correct choices, and thus propel forward the unstoppable spiral of progress. As we have now achieved the next turn of the spiral, it has become historically inevitable that our jobs as reporters also get fundamentally transformed with the rest of the society.
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/column-journalism-of-the-future-should-be-less-concerned-with-the-present/
Gayle says:
Note to Gallup: I’m not negative about the future of this country – I’m enraged beyond description.
Note to whichever journalist wrote the tripe above: gatekeepers of the truth? What are you smokin’?
You make me want to yell and wave my arms like Hillary, right before I vomit.
Note to administrator: where’s Stucky?
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24th January 2013 at 7:36 pm
BUCKHED says:
I know what would make Americans feel better….a toilet bowl liner that had the President and CONgress’s picture on it…that way every time you pee or drop a deuce you’d hit the source of all your frustrations !
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24th January 2013 at 7:36 pm
KaD says:
They had a statement on msn the other day saying that the majority of Americans thought illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay, and a survey. If you cast you vote in the survey it showed over 80% of people voting in the survey thought illegal immigrants are lawbreakers and should be thrown out. Be very skeptical about anything the msm tells you.
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24th January 2013 at 7:42 pm
ragdouche says:
BUCK: along those lines I have a Jane Fonda urinal target. A friend at work refers to “going #2″ as “Taking Obama for a Swim”. Appropriate, no?
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24th January 2013 at 7:43 pm
Administrator says:
Gayle
I think he is taking a break. He seemed upset with the Sandy Hook conspiracy thread.
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24th January 2013 at 7:51 pm
Clownbucks says:
I’ve come to the conclusion that most of everything broadcast or in print is sheer propaganda. Witness the media hysteria over the dumbest football player in history and his “dead girlfriend,” gun bills that will go nowhere, and other breathlessly reported non-stories while the PTB in DC and elsewhere go about their business (the business that is damn well damning to the public).
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24th January 2013 at 9:11 pm
AWD says:
A great explanation why so many non-thinking idiots watch the MSM and believe what they see and hear, no matter how wrong, ludicrous, or damaging. Because they want to belong.
The elites, the spin doctors on Wall Street and the criminals in Washington use human nature to their advantage. They are ahead of the curve, and controlling the heard. Great read:
The “Majority Opinion” Is An Illusion
Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market blog,
If there is one concept on Earth that has been the absolute bane of human existence (besides global elitism), it would have to be the concept of the “majority opinion”. The moment men began refusing to develop their own world views without first asking “What does everyone else think?”, they set themselves up for an endless future of failures. We are, of course, very social beings, and our natures drive us to seek those of like mind and spirit in what some might call a “tribal imperative”. However, this imperative to organize is often manipulated by those who understand the psychological mechanisms behind it. Oligarchs and tyrants abuse and exploit the inherent social natures of the people in order to fool them into abandoning their individuality for the sake of the group, or some abstract and dishonest ideal. When successful, the organization of a culture becomes bitter and twisted, changing from a tribe or a community of sovereign individuals, into a nightmare collective of soulless sheep.
Human beings desperately want to belong, but, they also desperately want to understand the environment around them. Often, the desire to belong and the desire to know the truth conflict. In some societies, in order to be accepted, one must give up on his search for truth and avoid eliciting the anger of others. This causes a severe mental and emotional disturbance within a population. In order to reconcile their conflicting needs within a system that does not nurture their quest for transparency, they tend to unconsciously cling to the “majority view” as if their very existence depends on it. The idea of the majority view or the “mainstream”, gives people the sense that they are a part of a group, and at the same time, gives them the illusion of being informed.
Their rationale is:
If most of the population believes something to be true, then, by “statistical law”, it most likely is true. Those who do not share in the majority opinion are therefore in opposition to statistical law; meaning they are behind the times, social deviants, or just plain crazy..
The problem is, history has shown that at pivotal moments in a society the “majority opinion” is usually WRONG. Any progress we do enjoy as a species is almost always due to the actions of tireless aware minorities, or even a lone man or woman who saw what the rest of us could not.
The greatest discoveries and truths have always been the product of individual thought and effort; numerous individuals working on parallel paths to generate new pieces of knowledge or more balanced and principled methods of living. There has never been such a thing as a collectivist realization, or a collectivist truth, and there never will be. Collectives do not think creatively or honestly. Their only concern is the survival of the system at all costs, and usually this requires a foundation of lies.
As a nation or culture edges towards collectivist tyranny, the battle-cry of the “majority opinion” will drown out all other reasonable voices. It has happened before, and unfortunately, it will happen again. In America today, I believe we are nearing the moment where the mass view becomes the only acceptable or legally sanctioned view. With the 2nd Amendment issue alone, the most common argument by anti-gun proponents is that “the majority opinion is on their side”. I’m here to point out that the “majority opinion” is, in fact, an illusion, and completely irrelevant.
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24th January 2013 at 9:40 pm
anotherjuan says:
back in the ’08 election, obama was promising hispanics that he would seek to pass legislation for a vigourous path to citizenship. as time went by i began to wonder if he had really said, ‘a rigorous path to citizenship’. when harry reid was running for reelection a couple years later, he promised hispanic voters in nevada that he would have an immigration bill in the congress just as soon as he was reelected. ever since reagan and clinton, hispanics have been conditioned to respond to immigration reform bells. now we are still responding with votes but all we are getting is the lip service without the reward.
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24th January 2013 at 9:40 pm
AWD says:
“There has never been such a thing as a collectivist realization, or a collectivist truth, and there never will be. Collectives do not think creatively or honestly. Their only concern is the survival of the system at all costs, and usually this requires a foundation of lies”
Obama and his liberal minions count of collectivism. They reward it (welfare/SNAP/disability/unemployment), they promote it, and they own and control the mechanism of modern day collectivism; the main stream media MSM.
Collectivism, socialism, communism; it always end the same way. Collapse, mass murder, and unmitigated tyranny. Welcome to the new USSA.
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24th January 2013 at 9:49 pm
Persnickety says:
@Anotherjuan: “now we are still responding with votes but all we are getting is the lip service without the reward.”
Funny, that’s how people who value the Second Amendment feel about Republicans. (We’ll see if they disprove that feeling this year.)
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24th January 2013 at 12:27 am
TeresaE says:
And just think, the only reason Gallup is able to garner the number of positives they do, is because of the MSM collusion with the gubment reporting bureaus to lie to us.
The headlines are screaming great times, the market is popping, yet the non seasonally adjusted unemployment claims number – while a huge drop week over week (might/probably due to non reporting by Cali and 2 others) – is still higher than last year. AND we are in midst of a brutal cold snap AND the largest state didn’t even report.
Jeezus fricking cripes.
People do not fucking care. It’s just easier to believe what you are told. Well, easier as long as our favorite tv show stays on, and our local junk food supplier is open, and our “smart” phones, or tablets, or if real poor, desktops, are sucking every available second of time left not pursuing the above two items, it can’t change.
Humans hate change. We hate hard work. We crave – physically and emotionally – the destructive foods and pills and plants that make us sick.
We not only hate change, we hate thinking too hard too. I just viewed a high ranking Catholic official pontificating for a ban on assault weapons on CSPAN yesterday.
If the very church that helped Hitler disarm the population, cannot see that they are setting this nation up for some greater horror, what freaking chance do we have?
What fallible, strange, creatures, we humans are. It occurs to me that we here, are truly genetic mutations and anomalies. I don’t know whether to celebrate or curse that knowledge.
FFF
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24th January 2013 at 8:52 am
Nonanonymous says:
Because the feds are above the law, they are also above the media.
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24th January 2013 at 9:17 am
Maddie's Mom says:
Well I, for one, am feeling happy and hopey today!!!
Didn’t ya hear? Mary Jo White has been made head of the SEC.
She’s gonna kick some bankster ass!!!
/sarc
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24th January 2013 at 9:29 am