When watching and reading the news, there appears to be quite a bit of anger among Americans with regard to how the country is being run or not being run across all spectrums: The federal government, across all branches; state government; school boards; etc.
I don’t want this thread to devolve into what people are angry about or even whether people are justified or not in their anger.
I’m more curious if you actually are angry and on a scale of 0-10 how angry are you.
I’m sure that we all have some level of dissatisfaction, I would have to characterize my own feels as less angry and more disappointment, in a more passive manner.
I would rate the level of anger over political matters as a 2 to 3 on a scale of 0-10, zero being no anger, and 10 boiling over.
Congressional disapproval is at a 77.8%, so I would say on average people are around a 7/10 angry, if the approval of our primary winners fares even slightly better.
I’m not angry. I’m actually dismayed about the level of anger reported. We all have policies and positions we favor, and parties we prefer, but I don’t get how worked up people get.
I had noticed that I had become more irritated with current politics than in years past. I’ve recently watched several weeks of Olympic sports and realized that I had been paying way too much time watching the lame stream media’s partisan political reporting. The LSM’s strawmanning, dead horse beating, spinning, twisting, and hate mongering certainly fills airtime and attracts advertisers, but is more political party/candidate avocation than news/truth.
The LSM needs to stick to the facts and let the voters/public decide which candidate(s) they believe will best represent we the people.
I want my side’s political opponents stripped of power completely. I want their lands seized, their property confiscated. I want their very names erased from the annals of History. Let them all be sent swordless to Palestine.
Mostly, I’m angry at the people who are angry. It is ridiculous to take the Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz all-or-nothing approach where every time you don’t get everything you want, you throw a “the system is rigged” or “shut down the government” tantrum.
We’re a big country, people. We disagree on a lot of topics. The solution is called compromise, and it’s a virtue, not a flaw. Until voters realize that, we won’t get anywhere.
I put 4 because I am angry at obstructionist asshats that are keeping the country from getting anything done “because reasons.”
I’m also angry at the local level because we have a couple obstructionist asshats in our city council. They are outnumbered now but they actively campaign to the public against what the other three councilmembers are trying to accomplish once they decide something will be put to a public vote.
I’m also furious with the public for being uninformed and apathetic.
I’m not sitting in my armchair waving my fist saying “Why doesn’t somebody DO something?!” angry, though. Cuz I believe this country has the leaders it deserves. Unfortunately I share the country with a whole bunch of nutjobs, but at least those nutjobs VOTE.
I’m not purporting to state individual anger but rather aggregate anger. However, it is more apathy/disappoint than anything I suppose with congress being chosen by 37% of us to govern 100% of us.
Not angry. I used to be, I guess. I was politically active for 25 years, an activist. Now I’m just politically exhausted. Resigned to knowing that this general dissatisfaction is how it is, how it has been, and how it will be.
I had to watch Watergate hearings at high school age. This is a little more diffise, as all the Republicans are assholes now. But anger? Thats’s for angry young Trump voters.
