More than half of Americans say the country’s best days are already behind it | CNN Politics
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In politics today, negativity is a much easier sell than enthusiasm. For the first time in nearly a decade of polling, more than half of Americans say the country’s best days are already behind it. Three-quarters think the country’s political system needs major reforms or a complete overhaul, according to CNN polling conducted by SSRS this summer.

CNN’s poll finds that more than half of political independents are either dissatisfied with or indifferent to both political parties – but different blocs of independents hold notably different attitudes.

And within the parties, people are more vehement in their dislike of the opposition than in their enthusiasm for their own party. The Democratic Party last saw positive ratings from a solid majority of the country in February 2009, while the Republican Party last saw a favorability rating of 55% or higher in February 2005.

It’s been 23 years since Americans gave both parties ratings that were broadly positive at the same time.

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  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 days ago

    people tried to say “this is fine” because those people knew the importance of stability.

    I saw that dynamic too but I think part of how we got to this point is that we broke the trust of the public by insisting “this is fine” when they could tell it wasn’t, and the insecure condescension we got from a lot of our leaders didn’t help matters

    I will say that there are some people way too eager to burn everything down right now and the crazier things get the more important it is that we all try to speak carefully, but OTOH we also absolutely need to throw some things into history’s dustbin and the longer we wait to do so the worse this is gonna get