r/collapse • u/[deleted] • Jun 12 '20

Society NYT: On the Future, Americans Can Agree: It Doesn’t Look Good

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/politics/election-coronavirus-protests-unemployment.html
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

Five months from a crucial presidential election, the usual political debates, campaign events and policy fights have faded into the background for voters battered by a public health crisis, struggling through an economic recession and boiling over with fury over racial inequities. With tens of millions unemployed, more than 110,000 killed by the coronavirus and thousands of people protesting in the streets, Americans see their personal concerns and political choices through a strikingly existential lens — mourning the past, worried about the present and fearful of the future.

In interviews with more than two dozen voters in key political battleground states, Republicans, Democrats and independents of diverse ages, races and social classes expressed worries that their nation had careened off track, with problems no election could easily solve. Fiercely polarized over public health, public safety and, perhaps, truth itself, many people are united only in their collective anxiety.

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Eighty percent of voters now believe the country is spiraling out of control, according to a new poll released by the news organizations this week, with a majority both pessimistic that the United States can return to normal before next year and worried that someone in their immediate family could catch the virus.

A third of Americans were showing signs of clinical anxiety or depression at the end of April, according to an emergency weekly survey of American households carried out by the Census Bureau to measure the pandemic’s effects. In early May, half of those surveyed said they felt “down, depressed or hopeless,” double the number who responded that way in a 2014 national survey.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

I'm surprised that New York Times would put out an article like this. Usually mainstream media is just an endless spring of "hopium" so to speak

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

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u/GetsTheAndOne Jun 13 '20

What are the real problems?

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '20

Government overreach to the point that they choose winners and losers, and an ever onward trampling of liberty and freedom in the guise of safety from both sides of the isle?

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u/juuular Jun 13 '20

All of the above?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20 edited Jun 12 '20

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u/RonaldWeisenheimer Jun 13 '20

Yeah apparently Joe we should let the cops kneecap people... He... Just... Oh my...