# Are you angry? \[Political Views\] **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 30, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483 "2016-08-30T15:03:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/21 "2016-08-31T02:39:10Z")
Say a six. But in the interest of full disclosure should I ever hit an 8 I’ll be talking to some relatives in Kamchatka or Georgia. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/22 "2016-08-31T02:41:05Z")
More disgusted and exhausted than angry. ---
**Author:** ![DoggyDunnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@DoggyDunnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoggyDunnit)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/23 "2016-08-31T03:33:57Z")
A solid 10. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/24 "2016-08-31T04:55:13Z")
Not so much angry per se, as tired. The reasoning behind a lot of the anger from others that I see is usually tied to how everything affects them. No compromise, no greater good, no future generations, no stopping kicking a dog when it’s down, no trying to understand things beyond your own life or needs. It’s exhausting watching people chase their tails over issues that will never personally touch them in any way, like the Great Bathroom Wars of 2016. And it’s even more irksome to listen to them yammer on when they were basically born on third base to begin with. Or maybe more so when they weren’t, yet have no compassion for others who go through similar troubles. I dunno, it’s a toss up. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/25 "2016-08-31T05:52:26Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > When watching and reading the news, there appears to be quite a bit of anger . . . . Your OP predicates that this is something new, but _ **EVERY FOUR DAMN YEARS** _ the media is talking about how voters “want change,” “what to see change in Washington,” etc., yadda yadda yadda. Why the hell are you even bothering with this? The only thing different this time is that one candidate has pandered to one particularly gullible segment of the population by making the “anger” into entertainment. The other candidate (Sanders) got further than any one expected, but his issues, and the people who hold them as important, have been around for a while. The whole “voter anger” thing as something new is a red-herring and a media trope. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/26 "2016-08-31T06:20:31Z")
Get off my lawn! Damn kids… ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/27 "2016-08-31T13:53:02Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Why the hell are you even bothering with this? Simmer down now. It’s gonna be okay. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/28 "2016-08-31T14:27:15Z")
I get mildly annoyed at blatant stupidity (a lot of that this election cycle), and very disappointed and sad when tragic things happen. But I can remember getting truly angry at something in the news just once - it was when the Abu Ghraib story broke. I was reading Newsweek in the food court of a mall when I saw those terrible photos and was absolutely incensed that this was being done by our own dumb-ass people in the name of “protecting” us! I think I got red in the face sitting there in the middle of a mall. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/29 "2016-08-31T17:19:35Z")
I’m angry that I have to be inundated with simpletons turning every discussion into an “us vs them” political diatribe. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/30 "2016-08-31T17:51:31Z")
I lament the death of journalism more than being angry at the positions of either major party. The Woodward and Bernstein’s investigation of the Watergate break in was some of the last of its kind. There were others too, back when there was real reporting. They inspired a new generation into the journalism field only to find that they must choose sides, stay on message, repeat the daily sound bites. They have to sell their soul for the paycheck and hope that they have promoted the message of their masters. And I don’t think that real reporting will return any generation soon. Where would the money come from if the end result does not match the expected message-of-the-day? It is like a scientist stating the expected result and conclusion before any research has been done. This is what disturbs me most about the new political process. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/31 "2016-08-31T18:11:37Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > I lament the death of journalism more than being angry at the positions of either major party. > > The Woodward and Bernstein’s investigation of the Watergate break in was some of the last of its kind. There were others too, back when there was real reporting. > > They inspired a new generation into the journalism field only to find that they must choose sides, stay on message, repeat the daily sound bites. They have to sell their soul for the paycheck and hope that they have promoted the message of their masters. > > And I don’t think that real reporting will return any generation soon. Where would the money come from if the end result does not match the expected message-of-the-day? It is like a scientist stating the expected result and conclusion before any research has been done. > > This is what disturbs me most about the new political process. It’s the 24 hour news and internet that’s gone done it. It’s all about holding the attention of morons for as long as possible so as to generate advertising dollars. So what that means is no longer is the news about impartial reporting or thoughtful discussion on complex topics (such that it ever was). It’s about getting a bunch of stupid idiots outraged. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/32 "2016-08-31T18:44:17Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I’m angry that I have to be inundated with simpletons turning every discussion into an “us vs them” political diatribe. If we could somehow get rid of all the “Them” it wouldn’t be a problem anymore. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/33 "2016-08-31T21:13:07Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > More disgusted and exhausted than angry. Same here. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/34 "2016-08-31T22:01:32Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > More disgusted and exhausted than angry. I used be to be disgusted. Now I try to be amused. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/35 "2016-08-31T23:02:51Z")
I was very often politically angry, until I left Facebook. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/36 "2016-08-31T23:38:40Z")
I think ordinary, decent people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are sick and tired. I am certainly not. And I’m sick and tired of being told that I am. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/37 "2016-09-01T01:54:00Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Say a six. But in the interest of full disclosure should I ever hit an 8 I’ll be talking to some relatives in Kamchatka or Georgia. Georgia? What, are you Papa Joe’s nephew? ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/38 "2016-09-01T10:05:16Z")
I chose zero. I’m no more emotional about this election than any other. To me, an election is like a dog show. I see it as corporations trotting their leashed whores around a ring and urging us to pick one. The only difference this time is one of the corporate johns himself is in the ring. A politician’s words are meaningless. It will mouth whatever platitudes it’s trained to say, then do whatever its owners wish once elected. I just try to figure out which corporations are the owners, and decide which of those I want dictating policy. Not that I’m cynical or anything. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/39 "2016-09-01T10:40:52Z")
I wouldn’t say I’m angry. Like a few other posters, I’m more disappointed than angry. I get angry at people who I think are being deliberately malicious. I disagree very strongly with certain politicians, but I don’t think they’re setting out to harm the country; they’re just utterly wrong-headed in the way they go about trying to improve it. Also, anger is what has brought us to this point, and more anger isn’t going to help. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483/40 "2016-09-01T14:40:44Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed with all of them. That’s pretty much me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-angry-political-views/764483.md?page=3)