Many respondents believe the US economy is already in dire straits, the poll found
More than four in 10 Americans believe the country is heading toward a complete economic meltdown within the next decade, according to a new poll.
The survey, released by YouGov on Wednesday, shows Americans are more worried about the economy than potential threats to the democratic system or the prospect of civil war.
42% of respondents said it is very or somewhat likely that there will be “a total economic collapse” in the next 10 years, while a smaller share, 38%, described this outcome as unlikely.
Financial anxiety ran much higher among Democrats, 53% of whom feared an economic breakdown, compared with just 28% of Republicans.
I don’t think you know what you’re hoping for.
Does the prospect of societal breakdown, warlordism, loose nukes, and mass starvation really sound nice to you?
Well, if it’s inevitable then yeah probably better to get it over with asap, like yeah ideally trump gets a heart attack and we prosecute all the child rapists in Washington and restore the global order and resume the march of progress in solidarity. But idk i think trump dies and they just keep going with this reactionary bs until we get WW3 and US has to surrender to the allies.
Better for that to happen via economic crisis now than full blown military ww3 crisis in a couple years.
Don’t care as long as the US falls apart like the USSR did in 1991. It doesn’t deserve to exist in its present form.
Who gets the nukes?
Same as what happened when the USSR collapsed. The nukes ended up in what is now Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine gave theirs up, they regret that now.
Those fucking Magas can have their very own landlocked country. And do whatever TF they want in it. They can have their white straight Christian nationalist gilead. They just won’t be able to be the world police, kidnap heads of state, constantly punch down by embargoing struggling Latin American countries, start world wars or tank the world economy on the whims of an 80 year old demented reality show host anymore. The US needs to break apart and the sooner that happens - the better.
I think the concept is that nothing is a strong enough catalyst for change. The overton window is slid so far right now, you either support all the billionaires or most of the billionaires. If it all implodes, the idea is that people will mobilize and we’ll be executing them in the streets.
I don’t know that it will be enough even at that, but we’re ceraintly not going anywhere sane as it sits now.
But most of American billionaires wealth is in stock evaluations. If the economy collapses billionaire will have nothing of value to extract from.
except for mansions, and yachts, and gold, and silver, assets in companies, IP, Paintings, and cars and jets and …
You place way too much faith in the assholes at the top being the ones holding everything together.
That sounds pretty good, actually. You got an ETA?