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submitted 1 week ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Americans are exceptionally anxious about their political system, according to new international polling from Gallup, a situation that sets the country apart from other rich and powerful nations.

About one-third of Americans rated politics and government as the top issue facing their nation, behind only Taiwan — which faces the prospect of an invasion from China — and on par with Slovenia, Spain and South Korea.

The United States also stands out for the anxiety its younger residents have over economic issues, with younger Americans more likely than young adults in many of the other 107 surveyed countries to say affordability and other pocketbook issues are worrying them

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Thats good. It means at least people are reading the moment well.

[-] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago

Yeah…. Finally. I mean, I felt like Jan 6 should have been a really big wakup, but wasn’t somehow

[-] n4ch1sm0@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

The right wing propaganda machine did such a good job at getting the "apolitical normies" and the otherwise politically nihilistic public to misconstrue the noise as just some left-right partisan debate, with all the buzz about just the rioters; while in the meantime Trump was working in the background at the same time, along with the likes of Rudy Giuliani, to deligitimize the 2020 election in a failed coup, and barely got any coverage. This was Trump's Beer Hall Putsch

[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This could be the most significant constitutional crisis in American history (outside the civil war lol) but the constitution is in fact very strong and that’s why America has 250 years of legal continuity

Imagine 200 more years of successful EU integration and that’s essentially what America is so there’s a 99% chance it’s not going to collapse or something

But it will be a difficult and desperate and deadly fight but do not fall for the doomerist propaganda everyone needs to get out and help in some way and especially vote because Republicans always lose when people simply go out and vote

[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

Dude they're literally saying the last Democrat wins were rigged, Trump is talking about nationalizing elections, Bannon wants ICE surrounding the polls.....

What are you smoking? If you don't want to do anything right now, fine. But don't insult people's intelligence by pretending anything resembling a normal election is going to happen. Not as long as they are in power.

[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yet the democrats just won those elections anyway

You are literally smoking the doomerist propaganda

It’s not going to be normal but neither were the bomb threats in the last election so stop the hysteria it doesn’t help your own cause and it’s the exact reaction they’re hoping you have

[-] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

We have every reason to be. Anyone who can volunteer, should.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Volunteer to do what? Outside of killing ICE, I'm not sure what to do.

[-] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

Local rapid response networks exist to help intimidate ICE whenever they appear. Local soup kitchens and other similar charitable organizations can use your help, as the people who are most often targeted by this administration are those who are already poor.

Go to local meetings any time someone proposes legislation that harms marginalized people, expands surveillance measures (e.g. ALPRs), or alters the favor of elections towards the far right, and make your voice heard. You can also comment on regulations.gov whenever certain legislation is put out, and your state legislature should have a way to contact your reps there, too. Our representatives aren't fully beholden to us, but they're known to cave under public pressure, and every little bit of pressure helps.

Donate to organizations that slow down the effort of the administration, like the ACLU, or more specific ones for any given issue (e.g. the FFRF for religion-related fascist policy prevention, the EFF and Fight For the Future for digital rights and surveillance, Climate Defiance for both climate and general political activism that disrupts bad politicians and billionaires where they live and work, the Internet Archive for archiving information the administration tries to take down, etc)

You can also just go to nearby protests. Check out 50501 and Mobilize for a lot of more common ones you can expect to find a lot of people at, but also just figure out other local groups in your area that might be holding events, marches, protests, boycotts, etc.

Speaking of that, boycott businesses that support the regime when you can. Boycott Here, BDS Movement, Boycott Citizens are all good resources, and there are always more targeted campaigns like QuitGPT.

Do mutual aid for your neighbors who need it, get a whistle you can use if ICE shows up near you (remember, 3 long blows is ICE nearby, long blows is ICE detaining. If you hear whistling from someone else, get out there, record, and use your own whistle to make sure others do the same!), canvass/phonebank for local candidates, or even candidates in other cities/states, to get local policies implemented to make your communities more safe. Progressive Victory is great for that. (though it does require you using Discord)

Outside of that, you can always show up to your local ICE facility and just generally be a nuisance. They hate that shit ;)

[-] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

If ONLY there was SOME way to Have Known TRUMP would do Things like this during his SECOND TERM AS PRESIDENT!

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The actual problem is far bigger than Trump; It's the corporate duopoly masquerading as a democracy that created the conditions necessary for the rise of Trump and the MAGA movement in the first place.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

I'm past anxious, more like Im fairly at peace that my quality of life is going to plummet along with everyone elses' and worrying about making it through is a comical pursuit against terrible odds.

[-] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Anxious? What? Nahhhhhhhhhh, that's wokeist cultural Marxist Disney Communist Transgender Libtard radical Left propaganda from the deep state, everything is going great, except for them damn illegals and drag queens indoctrinatin our kids!!!

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

These past 80 years sure have been dreadful.

Yep, each and every one of the 80 years since 2016.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sit out the midterm elections. Let the fascists entrench themselves at the highest levels of govt. Sit out the presidential elections, fully knowing there is a fascist on the ticket not bound by convention, decorum, or restraint with previously proven tendencies to act out fascist agenda that he said he would enact. Let said fascist in office by inaction at the polls. Watch incredulously as he and previously elected fascists proceeds to do just that.

Oh, blame stupid dems.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure "exceptionally anxious" is a sufficient enough term for an actual fascist takeover of our federal government.

I'd go with abject dread.

[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

The average American commuter is too self-centered to bother voting, and NOW they're "anxious?"

Too late, Dipshits. You chose fascism.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

America ended when citizens united passed, if not farther back. Blaming the voters is facile. If you need facile things, by all means.

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