This Fourth of July, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that no matter how polarized they might be politically, Americans finally seem to agree on something: that everything about America is getting worse.
Overall, the poll found the American people in a historically pessimistic mood heading into a holiday weekend traditionally marked by family cookouts and fireworks displays — events that have been canceled across the country in the midst of a surging coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 128,000 Americans and is currently infecting more than 50,000 each day.
Yet America’s bleak outlook goes beyond the pandemic. Sixty-four percent of Americans, including 67 percent of Democrats and 60 percent of Republicans, say race relations — the focus of mass protests since George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in late May — are also getting worse, versus just 12 percent who say race relations are getting better. Sixty-one percent say the economy is getting worse, versus just 21 percent who say it’s getting better.
William Wood, a 52-year-old retail supervisor in Lebanon, Ohio, said that while he is still proud to be an American and that he believes the United States is “still the nation with the most developed sense of equality,” his own experience as a retail worker in the pandemic underscores his sense that some things aren’t equal. Wood said he is required to wear a mask at work while many customers are permitted not to. The breakdown of social discourse has hurt us, Wood believes.
If the American dream is defined as the belief that your children will have a better life than you did, then for most Americans the dream isn’t coming true. A full 59 percent say they are either “somewhat worse off” , “much worse off” or “about the same” as their own parents — while a similar 56 percent predict their own children will be either somewhat worse off , much worse off or about the same as them.
K_Thomas_Ross Of course Reagan was also a selfish liar who began the trend of wealth inequality.
I guess not. After the riots aka protests
Reagan was a criminal IranContra IDontRecall
BS -
America has been loaded up with immigrants, who don’t know who Ronald Reagan is. They just know that they can get free stuff, from others who have borrowed the money to pay for them!
With all the rioting,burning, lootings? Socialist and Marxist nutty kids everywhere? The attack on police? You bet your sweet a$$ it's not shining! And probably never will again I hate to say.
Trump is destroying our country on purpose.
In the poll, a staggering 62 percent of Americans say the U.S. is no longer that shining city on a hill. Just 17 percent say it still is. “We are banned from Europe right now. How could we be shining?”
“We are banned from Europe right now,” she said. “How could we be shining?” In the poll, a staggering 62 percent of Americans say the U.S. is no longer that shining city on a hill. Just 17 percent say it still is.
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