Americans Are Officially Freaking Out - Bloomberg News

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https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2017-11-01/americans-are-officially-freaking-out

By Deena Shanker at Bloomberg Business

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Almost two-thirds of Americans, or 63 percent, report being stressed about the future of the nation, according to the American Psychological Association’s Eleventh Stress in America survey, conducted in August and released on Wednesday. This worry about the fate of the union tops longstanding stressors such as money (62 percent) and work (61 percent) and also cuts across political proclivities. However, a significantly larger proportion of Democrats (73 percent) reported feeling stress than independents (59 percent) and Republicans (56 percent).

The “current social divisiveness” in America was reported by 59 percent of those surveyed as a cause of their own malaise. When the APA surveyed Americans a year ago, 52 percent said they were stressed by the presidential campaign. Since then, anxieties have only grown.

A majority of the more than 3,400 Americans polled, 59 percent, said “they consider this to to be the lowest point in our nation’s history that they can remember.” That sentiment spanned generations, including those that lived through World War II, the Vietnam War, and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. (Some 30 percent of people polled cited terrorism as a source of concern, a number that’s likely to rise given the alleged terrorist attack in New York City on Tuesday.)

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The survey didn’t ask respondents specifically about the administration of President Donald Trump, Evans said. He points to the “acrimony in the public discourse” and “the general feeling that we are divided as a country” as being more important than any particular person or political party.



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[Turbineguy]

1. Then Trump can say,

"My work is done here, I'm needed elsewhere!"

[Cosmocat]

2. And this is only going to get worse

Until this country recognizes and admits the driver of all of this is the conservative movement, and holds the republican party responsible.

Keep indulging republican fuck wittery, and it is going to get worse.

[lastlib]

3. This!

The overwhelming greed of the 1%, and their desire to push us down the superhighway to serfdom, is the cause of most of our national ills.

[The Wizard]

4. winner

[Initech]

6. The conservatives are responsible for 100% of the division.

And they won't admit it either. All they do is divide and divide and divide. Eventually they'll divide by zero.

[Pluvious]

5. And we learn that the Russians had BOTH an anti-immigration site AND...

... A pro Muslim site, so they could "battle" each other.

We have been played.

[Initech]

7. Yup, Russia has been playing both sides for chumps.

If we could ever unite this country and go after the common enemy in all of this - Russia, that would be awesome. But we're so divide I doubt it.

[Meowmee]

8. Only 59%

Were disturbed by the fascist nazi campaign shows how many fascists and loons are in this country.