POLL: Majority of Americans feel like strangers in own country...

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POLL: Majority of Americans feel like strangers in own country...

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Murder by suicide by our elected officials

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Where's the poll?



I want to vote...

 

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its the one teh DUMZ are shoving up our ass

and we allow it

 

[miles]

I don't feel like a stranger in my own country. I'm more afraid of what liberalism is doing to it. Everything they touch turns to shit.

We have a spineless, lying worm in the WH with the Hildabeast waiting in the wings to finish the job once and for all.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

The elites and their acolytes (media, academia, and pols) are disconnected from and oblivious of America's Reagan Democrats.

Your basic Reagan Democrat graduates school without any hard time in juvenile detention or special ed or with the shrinks. Then they enlist in the Navy or Army, get married, and repeat what their parents did before them. And when Bruce Jenner screams FREAK!!! at them they roll their eyes.

 

[miles]

The elites and their acolytes (media, academia, and pols) are disconnected from and oblivious of America's Reagan Democrats.

Your basic Reagan Democrat graduates school without any hard time in juvenile detention or special ed or with the shrinks. Then they enlist in the Navy or Army, get married, and repeat what their parents did before them. And when Bruce Jenner screams FREAK!!! at them they roll their eyes.

What???

 

[RobDownSouth]

I don't feel like a stranger in my own country. I'm more afraid of what liberalism is doing to it. Everything they touch turns to shit.

We have a spineless, lying worm in the WH with the Hildabeast waiting in the wings to finish the job once and for all.

Poor Miles, teh Eternal Victim™

If only #ThosePeople would stop disagreeing with him!

 

[miles]

^^^ The stench or rotting pork fills the air.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

ManBoobPig is super cereal about his hate.

 

[miles]

ManBoobPig is super cereal about his hate.

He's seething in his own gravy.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

He's seething in his own gravy.

It might be brown, but that don't mean it's "gravy..."

 

[miles]

It might be brown, but that don't mean it's "gravy..."

I was thinking more like a bechamel thickened with smegma.

 

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FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Reuters/Ipsos Poll: Majority of Americans Feel Like Strangers In Their Own Country.
According to the Reuters survey, 58 percent Americans say they “don’t identify with what America has become.” While Republicans and Independents are the most likely to agree with this statement, even 45 percent of Democrats share this feeling.

More than half of Americans, 53 percent, say they “feel like a stranger” in their own country. A minority of Americans feel “comfortable as myself” in the country.

There are no doubt lots of reasons underlying this feelings. Demographically, Americans holding these views tend to be white, older, live in the South and have less than a college education. Politically, they are cordoned off as the white working class. While they rarely attract much attention from the political class, they still represent an enormous block of voters.

Their numbers may be declining relative to the entire population, but they are still the largest single block of voters. In many critical swing states like Ohio, Florida, and North Carolina, they represent a significant base of voters that can determine the outcome of elections.

The reasons for their alienation are both cultural and economic. The economic anxiety sparked by the financial crisis in 2007-8 has likely pushed them further away from the mainstream political parties. This isn’t solely a phenomenon on the right, as the resurgent popularity of explicitly socialist policies on the left attest. . . .

The Democrat party, for now at least, has staked its future on appealing to young and minority voters.

Whether or not this is the politically smart play for the future remains to be seen. In the present, however, it means that a huge block of voters feel alienated and are up for grabs politically. Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” is perfectly attuned to those voters who feel increasingly like “strangers” in their own country.

Panic breeds actions born out of emotions rather than somber reflection. The Republican establishment is understandably panicked at the thought of Donald Trump capturing the party’s nomination for President. It is convinced, perhaps incorrectly, that a Trump candidacy will doom the party’s chances next year.

Its zeal to derail his campaign carries huge risks for the party, however. The Trump phenomenon is not simply the product of a media-savvy, hyper-personality candidate. It is drawing strength from very real sentiments of a huge block of voters. The Republican party may take out Trump, but it alienates these voters at its peril.

True.