Anger Management, Anyone?

Michael Snyder runs The Economic Collapse blog, and he specializes in alarmism. I try to avoid alarmism, but I’ll also admit that I enjoy reading his. This whole Zhou regime situation has me in a dark mood, so I gravitated toward one of his most recent posts:

Polls Show That The American People Are Extremely Angry – And They Are About To Get Even Angrier

The rapidity with which the F*ck Zhou Baidan phenomenon is spreading across the country--including, in of all unlikely place, NYC--is certainly an indicator of anger and building disillusion. While that observation is, to a degree, anecdotal, standard polling is measuring the same thing. Snyder writes:

… the stunt that Joe Biden pulled last week is certainly not helping matters. When he visited Boise on Monday, enormous crowds of extremely angry protesters were waiting for him. And everywhere I go on social media this week, I am seeing huge explosions of anger. What in the world is our country going to look like if all of this anger continues to grow?

Normally, it is either one side of the political spectrum or the other that is angry at any given time.

But here in September 2021, both sides of the political spectrum are very angry. Just check out these stunning numbers from a brand new CNN poll…

A new CNN poll finds that 74% of U.S. adults now say they are “very or somewhat angry” about the way things are going in the U.S. today — that includes 88% of Republicans, 70% of independents and even 67% of Democrats. But wait, there’s more.

Another 69% of U.S. adults now say that things are going “pretty or very badly” in the country these days — that includes 91% of Republicans, 72% of independents and 49% of Democrats.

And guess what? They ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Anyone thinking inflation will subside soon is seriously kidding themselves, and there are few, if any, things more likely to fuel anger than inflation.

Add to that crime, the Covid Regime and its mandates, the continuing assault on primary education, and the national disgrace of an incompetent national security apparatus. By the way, I continue to observe--strictly anecdotally--that people in stores are much more lackadaisical about the current mandates. They seem to have caught on, to realize that it’s a giant hoax. And they know by now that the hoax is being perpetrated by the government--the same people responsible for all the other problems that are making them insecure and angry:

Surprisingly, that same CNN poll asked a question about illegal immigration, and it found that even most Democrats are concerned about “the movement of undocumented immigrants”…

And by the way, illegal immigration is still a concern for many in this nation. The CNN survey also found that 77% of U.S. adults say that it is important that the federal government “stops the movement of undocumented immigrants into the United States.” And the partisan breakdown: 95% of Republicans, 76% of independents and 52% of Democrats agreed.

Ever since Joe Biden entered the White House, giant throngs of people have been surging to our southern border, and this has created an unprecedented immigration crisis.

Incredibly, even though Biden has decided to impose vaccine mandates on millions upon millions of American citizens, even the White House Press Secretary is admitting that there will be no such requirement for the illegal immigrants that are being let into this country.

I have news for anyone who is under the illusion that the Dread Delta is the most infectious disease on the planet. The measles that Afghans have brought with them to Wisconsin and North Carolina--so far--will definitely force a reconsideration. And God only knows what’s coming across the southern border.

All this is building, day by day, and people are becoming preoccupied with it. Snyder:

Today, my wife walked into a store where the employees were openly talking about how they might soon lose their jobs because of these new mandates. …

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Asked in a new poll by Convention of States Action, in partnership with The Trafalgar Group, whether Biden has the constitutional authority to impose that demand, 58.6% said no.

Only 29.7% said yes.

The poll, taken over the weekend of likely general election voters, has a margin of error of 2.96%.

There’s lots more, but Snyder concludes:

If Americans are this angry while things are still relatively stable, what is the mood of this country going to look like once things really start to fall apart?

As a nation, we are not emotionally equipped to handle any sort of a major societal collapse, but that is where the road that we are on inevitably leads.

These are such troubled times, and I have a feeling that really big surprises are just around the corner.

I think Snyder is on to something important here. While you can argue that America has been in the grips of increasing anxiety--Election 2016 is a marker for that--none of that amounts to the type of major societal upheaval that could be ‘around the corner.’ Americans are used to muddling through without things becoming too chaotic. The likelihood is that the anger this time could get very ugly.