Biden was going to pull America up out of its dark days plagued by the corona-virus, economic depression, and President Trump’s tweets–a newly released survey on Washington Examiner shows U.S. “satisfaction” has hit rock bottom.In the latest Gallup survey, satisfaction is the lowest the firm has ever recorded, down to 39% from 53% a year ago. And this is its steepest one-year plunge they ever recorded, its inception having been in 2001.
“Americans’ satisfaction with seven broad aspects of the way the country functions to include analysis of satisfaction with the overall quality of life in the U.S., assessments of government, corporate and religious influence, and perceptions of the economic and moral climates is collectively at its lowest in two decades of Gallup measurement,” said the analysis.
Multiple surveys have shown that while the nation is in a blue funk, many Americans hope for good things in the coming year.
But the Gallup survey indicated just how difficult a climb this will have to be.
In zero aspects–ranging from “overall quality of life” to “the moral and ethical climate”–did satisfaction increase since January 2000.
And while there were some differences between Democrats and Republicans, both said they were less satisfied this year.
The “bottom line” from Gallup:
With the U.S. battling a global pandemic, the economy still struggling to recover from the associated slowing of economic activity, and political tensions high in the wake of the election that Trump contested, Americans’ views of the country are very different today than a year ago.
This is evident in the decline in Americans’ satisfaction with the direction of the country overall from 41% last January to 11% today. But the specific ratings reviewed in this report fill out the story.
Satisfaction ratings with the quality of life, the moral and ethical climate, the distribution of income and wealth, and people’s opportunity for advancement have declined over the past year to a similar degree among Republicans and Democrats.
Noteworthy is that Republicans have grown especially put off by government and corporate power, while Democrats are less content with organized religion. These shifts are likely to influence the way politics and policy play out over the next year and beyond.
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you who are displeased with the current political gamesmanship, the diminish-ment of our First Amendment and Second Amendment rights, and the despicable treatment of our cheated President, Donald J. Trump. And what about the treatment of our elected conservative Republican lawmakers? Perhaps the safest thing to say is that disgust abounds.
