Americans are exceptionally anxious about their political system, according to new international polling from Gallup, a situation that sets the country apart from other rich and powerful nations.

About one-third of Americans rated politics and government as the top issue facing their nation, behind only Taiwan — which faces the prospect of an invasion from China — and on par with Slovenia, Spain and South Korea.

The United States also stands out for the anxiety its younger residents have over economic issues, with younger Americans more likely than young adults in many of the other 107 surveyed countries to say affordability and other pocketbook issues are worrying them

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    Dude they’re literally saying the last Democrat wins were rigged, Trump is talking about nationalizing elections, Bannon wants ICE surrounding the polls…

    What are you smoking? If you don’t want to do anything right now, fine. But don’t insult people’s intelligence by pretending anything resembling a normal election is going to happen. Not as long as they are in power.

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      Yet the democrats just won those elections anyway

      You are literally smoking the doomerist propaganda

      It’s not going to be normal but neither were the bomb threats in the last election so stop the hysteria it doesn’t help your own cause and it’s the exact reaction they’re hoping you have

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        You’re hopelessly naive, and this attitude is exactly why if fascism and capitalism don’t kill most of us first, climate change will eventually

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        Democrats are part of the problem. They did nothing to prevent fascism, they only furthered it. They serve the same elite pedophile ruling class. Come on, we need everyone together to realize this so we can stop them.

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          Just look at this thread. Looks like most people are still in complete denial.

          They called climate activists doomers as well. Just wait until the next strong el nino for all the shocked pikachu faces coming out of the woodwork.

          I fucking hate humanity, as a whole. But I suppose it’s the way we’re built, people are just reacting emotionally without using their brains.

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        We should be fearful that this might happen, but it shouldn’t be taken as a foregone conclusion. Something like that might happen, which only means we should be prepared for it

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          Going to happen. The president is calling for his party to take over and “nationalize” the voting system and bannon is planning to have ice surrounding polls.

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            What exactly do you find doomerist. Honestly trying to understand what is clouding the judgements of so many people.

            Are you willing to tell me what you think is going to happen then? Or you haven’t gone that far and “nuh uh” is all there is?