More than one-in-four U.S. voters are so alienated from their government that they believe it may “soon be necessary to take up arms” against it, according to a new survey.
Twenty-eight percent of the 1,000 registered U.S. voter in the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics survey released Thursday agreed and said yes to the question.
In a partisan breakdown, one-in-three Republicans and Independent voters held that view, compared to one-in-five Democrats, the survey also found.
The finding comes amid the televised Democrat-led House committee’s hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, which has focused in large part on whether former President Trump and members of his inner circle helped incite the riot.
The survey was led by Republican pollster Neil Newhouse and Democratic pollster Joel Benenson.
The institute said the survey was designed to “probe polarization and its relationship to the news sources upon which Americans rely in a fractionated media environment.”
“The portrait that it paints reveals not only the growing divides we have witnessed in recent years but strong sentiments that the majority of media outlets contribute to these divisions by intentionally misleading their audiences to promote a political point of view,” the institute also said.
On the issue of new sources, CNN was rated by 47% of respondents as making “a good faith effort to report the news,” while 41% said the cable network intentionally tries “to mislead their viewers to persuade people to take a political point of view.”
Only about one-in-three surveyed indicated the Fox News Network passed on the “good faith” test, the survey also found.
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The other 72% are still in the paddock grazing.
80% or more don’t see a problem because they believe corp. news and politicians bloviating 24/7. These are majority who lack left brain function/critical thinking skills . Most are covid cult members and don’t know what a rino is in congress, or agenda 2030. Most have never heard of reset/digital enslavement planned by the W.E.F. clique. This sums it up:https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-invisible-power-controlling-the
40%+ of the population are government employees, work for government-dependent “private” firms (e.g. MIC, “healthcare”), or are otherwise dependent on a regular government check.
Even in difficult times, the above persons will remain relatively fat and sassy, and will support virtually any government program or initiative, such as wage/price controls, guaranteed income payments, gun seizures, military interventions foreign or domestic, or the obvious packing of the federal courts.
Turn on Meet the Press one Sunday. You’ll see that the firms you’re referring to are the only “advertisers” on that show. At least that’s what I think. I’ve never watched the whole thing–just for the first conservative who gets ambushed or the first nerfball handed to a socialist. Then I wait for a commercial to see if there is someone I need to stay away from. It’s never a real business.
28% who can assess the facts and numerical trends, observe human behavior, and conclude the current state problems are purposeful while the trajectory we are on may not end well.
The other 72% are clueless or idiot Biden voters who like the path he created.
Not really. They participated in a survey. If you do I think you still don’t get it.
Does anyone actually believe this article, in other words?
No. Clearly a skewed sample as shown by the answers on CNN and Fox.
CNN flat out lies and supports the communists no matter what. FOX is more accurate but only covers the neocon perspective or Never Trumper view of the Republican side. CNN is unwatchable. FOX is trying hard to catch up with fuques like Brett Baier. Real Americas Voice Network seems to provide real and accurate coverage. You can get it on a cell phone and listen to it on Bluetooth on your radio. Also stream on Samsung TV and many other streaming devices. I watch Warroom on Real America on a pad with wifi while I wander about the fort doing my daily drudgery.
Obviously depends a lot on where you ask the question. Also, few would say I am fed up with communist with the FBI kicking in doors all over the country. Almost 30% admitting it should give the Oligarchs reason to keep AMPC and jet handy.
Dropped cable in 2017. CNN is free on Pluto TV but not worth the aggravation. $5 a month for One America News Live is to me a good value and worth it to keep them going as one cable company after another gives in to FCC pressure to drop them.
O-buy-done did not create any path. He is merely the point of frustration, the front man, for policies that were developed to fully consolidate global power under one totalitarian dictatorship. We are witnessing the final battle in the war against God and those created in His image.
I see it as perhaps more , to quote Churchill, “The end of the beginning.” Shit’s about to get real. Absolutely shocked if the Democrat Militias don’t pull major shit this long weekend.
Majority of the 72% (some say higher) are nihilists and live in their own self absorbed world of trivial activities. They are the ones who don’t give a hoot about kids or g’kids futures or type of gov. plan to control by digital enslavement tracking 24/7, social credit scores for buying, selling, banking, medical care, jobs, education, etc.
The 72% answered quickly because the polster interrupted their pro sports on TV. Pro Sports…the new opiate for the masses, now that the Democrats killed God.
Willy B: Other opiates are facebook and other social media, checking for updates 24/7, even all night members say. Others are bridge clubs, golfing more than average and TV trash shows watched by retirees and non working women (talk shows, soap operas or game shows).
Definitely not a survey you’d catch me participating in.
Note one in three Republicans and Independents but only one in five Democrats. That’s probably also the ratio of gun owners in the U.S. If you’re conservative and don’t own a gun, you’d better hurry. Single issue voters (aka pro choice) plus Democrat fraud–ably assisted by non-voters–are possibly going to allow the socialists to keep their majority in congress this November. Then next year we’ll have four new SCOTUS positions all filled with Ketanji Jacksons and Sotomayors, followed by new laws essentially invalidating the 2nd Amendment.
Get your guns from private sellers if possible. That way, you won’t be on an ATF confiscation list.
Willy,folks can also buy with cash 80%’s and do builds,get the exact firearm you want.
Surveys / polls are all worthless endeavors and not worthy of anyone’s time to read.
The week before Russia’s special military operation 92.3% of survey respondents thought “Ukraine” was an alternative to YouTube. One week later 92.3% of American fuktards were hanging Ukrainian flags in their front yards.
Honestly we are at that point where it is bound to happen, one way or another. I don’t disclose much about my location other than I live in upstate NY nestled in the Adirondacks where there is nothing but small rural enclaves. The people up here (I say up in terms of the shithole city being down) are mainly Conservative.
After the SCOTUS gun hearing, which was directed at the NY pistol permit process, our tyrant governor and NYC controlled legislature decided to pass a bunch of laws to basically go against the entire decision. These mother fuckers essentially told SCOTUS to go fuck themselves, and then on top of it made it HARDER to acquire a permit.
The old way was not much different than the conceal permitting process of other states. Some paperwork, a background check, and done. The kicker was when you wanted full conceal, which you had to show “good cause” to get. SCOTUS shot that down. So NY convenes an emergency legislature meeting and passes a bunch of new laws to circumvent the SCOTUS decision. These include: 15 hours of live fire training, sit down interview with law enforcement where they can grill you, disclosure of social media accounts, interview of all family members living with you, requirements for safe storage (rumor is they want to come and check your house), and more. They also made it so any business by default is not allowed to have guns unless they specifically put a sign up that says otherwise.
I can only hope the courts throw most of that bullshit out. But the whole point I am making is that the people are fed up with this shit. There is going to come a time when that governor and liberal legislature are dragged out of their office, tried, and hung (at least tar and feathered).
The blood of Americans is starting to boil over.
They didn’t “PASS” any laws. They merely created new laws out of the nothingness and expect people to obey, under penalty of law, those new, illegal, laws they created. When tyrany becomes law rebellion becomes duty. I just heard that. I wonder what it means ?
And as usual, they never sat down and thought them over. For example, the business clause making it automatically illegal to enter a business with a concealed handgun unless a sign is posted (usually its other way around). They never put a clause in the “law” that waives the owner of the business, armed security, or money transport agencies. So if a business owner is carrying in his own business and doesn’t exempt his business to prohibit carrying, he can be charged with a felony. The brinks truck drivers can be arrested. It is asinine. There has to be an IQ test for serving the public.
Like here in canukistan the laws a re written and then ‘later’ refined, is what we’re told.
Except its merely a method for politicals, mostly all former lawyers, crappy lawyers, to support the legal scam we know as law and courts of law. Poorly written laws guarantees lawyers and judges (promoted scummy lawyers) years of litigation income and bleeding the citizenry of its wealth.
The other excuse of ‘refining’ the law after its passed just means they will add whatever they want after the fact. Its the expand as needed method of law making. Its ALL a scam.
See my Brandeis quote above.
Q: What do you call an old, decrepit, senile lawyer?
A: Your Honor.
So the legislature makes it just as tedious and time consuming as before, and they know how long it will take and how much it will cost to make it back to the SCOTUS again, so why not, they figure. Meanwhile, if the Dems retain control of congress, they’ll pack the court next year, and it’s all over.
Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice 1928:
“Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
Had a woman with the air of a public school teacher whine about why we weren’t invading Russia on behalf of Ukraine.Had to remind her Russia wasn’t Iraq and is armed with hydrogen bombs lol.
Yeah. Really no need to mention what she suggests is immoral, illegal and totally bat shit crazy.
“Russia is a rotten building. All we have to do is kick down the door, and it will collapse.”
– some famous Austrian corporal
People like that are how Wilson, FDR, Truman and Johnson got us hip deep in wars, and then got away with blaming Republicans for us being at war.
ha ha ha … let the idiots vote , they said.
Eighty per cent of Democrats expressed trust in elections, while only 51 per cent of independents and 33 per cent of Republicans polled said they did.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-10971195%2FA-QUARTER-Americans-say-ready-arms-against-government.html
If Trump would have won it would have been the other way around.
No doubt.
One of the last conversations I had with my Mother 20+ years ago, I told her I fully expected to take up arms against the US government during my lifetime. As a child of the depression and a young wife with a sailor serving in the Pacific during WWII, she was totally shocked by my comments. This was well before 9-11 and I could already see that the government was using 1984 as an instruction manual.
That generation thought this country would always have an infallible gov. , (so few woke up in recent years) what a crock of horse droppings, now we are stuck w/ the mess.
A good start. Thankfully the government, in every second of operation, is working tirelessly to increase that total.
I feel the #’s are much higher,just won’t say due to opsec ect.
That’s in the range of the numbers of patriots who took up arms against the tyranny of England over the colonies.
Looks like good practice….
The globalists plan is to systematically destroy the food, the energy supply and the financial system so that when people do wake up, there will be no way to do anything about it. The courts and justice system have already been destroyed, just like the young, impressionable minds of the next generation of school aged children.
28% believe it may be necessary for somebody else to take up arms. Nobody is doing squat that isn’t financed and supported and guided by the “Company”. There have never been any spontaneous grassroot rebellions that succeeded. The English, French and American revolutions were not spontaneous. They were planned and funded and guided.
“…There have never been any spontaneous grassroot rebellions that succeeded…”
That’s the fact, Jack.
Lots of voices today saying: We have to organize!!!
Right. Organize. Without any understanding of the enemy’s infiltration and counterinsurgency tactics.
Kobayashi Maru. That’s what we’re up against.
As Thomas Jefferson said so presciently that the tree of liberty must be watered with blood from time to time. They KNEW how men get DRUNK on power and then start UCKFING things up wheely bad, on purpose, with malcontent, revenge, and just plain getting STEWPID.
If its outta the university part of the metaverse, be suspicious. If it’s from unichicago, add an extra dollop of suspicion.