51% Expect Major Political Uprisings in U.S. in Next Ten Yr

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Fox News Poll: 51% Expect Major Political Uprisings in U.S. in Next Ten Years

By Dana Blanton

Published September 01, 2011



Most American voters think the U.S. political system is broken, and more than half think major political uprisings like those recently seen elsewhere around the world are likely to happen in the United States in the next decade.

These are some of the findings from a Fox News poll released Thursday.

Less than a quarter of voters (22 percent) think the U.S. political system is working the way it is supposed to work with different sides fighting hard for what they believe. Most -- 74 percent -- say the system is broken and gridlocked.

Democrats (82 percent), independents (71 percent) and Republicans (67 percent) alike say the political system is broken.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/01/fox-news-poll-51-expect-major-political-uprisings-in-us-in-next-ten-years/#ixzz1WkFCRVCe

Personal opinion: I think its 'flawed' more than its 'broken' and only because of the evolutionary processes of our laws and standards. Heard a cool saying recently, "There are two sides to every story, unless you're talking about politics, then there are three."









Badger

I see that you are comparatively new here on 285Bound, so I would like to welcome you to the fray.

You are entitled to having an opinion, we all do. The article I posted is a poll taken wherein this great percentage of folks have stated that it is broken. I, for one agree that Broken is more appropriate of a description than flawed. It has been for generations. The Constitution wasn't written for Service to the country being Life-Long careers and power grabbing, done, by both sides. Certain Amendments have been interpreted in the last century to be totally different than what they were written to mean, IMO. To me, this means that the system has broken down. It is now more about Political Agenda than what is right and good for the Nation as a whole.

I await rebuttal from the usual suspects.

Good to see you back Nmysys. Carry on

It won't take that long, people are tired and want results sooner than that.

I think that the progressives have succeeded in making themselves a permanent and irrelevant minority. I predict that their rhetoric will become more and more extreme which will alienate more and more normals.

At some point they will realise it and go postal.

Welcome back, Nmysys!

Hope you are feeling much better!

neptunechimney wrote: I think that the progressives have succeeded in making themselves a permanent and irrelevant minority. I predict that their rhetoric will become more and more extreme which will alienate more and more normals.

At some point they will realise it and go postal.

Interesting...I see the Tea Party Republicans the same way. They have gone so far to the extreme right that they will render themselves irrelevant. Most Americans are neither extreme right nor extreme left. When the Tea Party added the far right wing social and religious agenda to their economic message they lost a lot of support.

I doubt it. Look how quickly the power swings back and forth here. Obama came in with major coattails yet lost them and more in less than 2 years. Pretty easy to change the direction of the nation when you have a good base.

So, the uprising would happen regardless of what party is in power at the time? That's interesting.

At least it's only 51% of those polled -- so 49% don't believe that.. pretty even, given the margin of error in the poll.