Statistics can be revealing. Less obvious things are teased from the obvious. Biden’s poor poll numbers spell failure – “negative 33 to 54 percent” approval – Quinnipiac poll. But what else? This recent poll shows other things, important for 2022 midterms, 2024, and long term.
First, people are deeply unhappy, and consider America more – not less – divided after a year of the Democrat lock on power. That is revealing. Democrats, Republicans, and Independents – who agree on little, beyond where the sun sets – agree on twin facts: America is more divided now not less. And this equates to high danger, an internal threat to stability.
While voting Democrats seldom denounce Biden’s open borders, illegal aliens, rising homicides, inflation, energy costs, Critical Race Theory, and the rest, they are not stupid. They see danger.
How unified is the assessment, and what does it mean? Americans believe “the bigger danger to the United States comes from within,” 76 percent more concerned about “political instability” than external adversaries.
Fear for freedom and democracy, constitutional governance and institutions is almost universal. “Democrats say 83 – 13 percent, Independents say 78 – 19 percent, and Republicans say 66 – 29 percent that political instability in the U.S. is the bigger danger.” See, Political Instability Not U.S. Adversaries, Seen As Bigger Threat, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Nearly 6 In 10 Think Nation’s Democracy Is In Danger Of Collapse
Overall, “a majority of Americans, 58 – 37 percent, think the nation’s democracy is in danger of collapse.” That is shocking. “Republicans say 62 – 36 percent, Independents say 57 – 39 percent, and Democrats say 56 – 37 percent think … democracy is in danger of collapse.”
Pause to unpack this. While some worry that January 6th coverage, hysteria over COVID, loss of must-have legislation (really must-not-have) is the main issue, more is afoot.
Look at Democrat messaging. A series of hysteria-fanning gambits, attacks on American history, culture, economy, biology, faith, constitutional processes, all to save the world. Sky is falling!
People get tired of that, begin to worry that all the hysteria might be the problem, the real threat buried in unremitting appeals to fear, radicalism, and calls to “transform” society.
What do Democrats propose? For COVID, forget the 10th Amendment’s promise to limit federal power, instead push mandates that crimp rights like speech, worship, travel, employment.
To push leftism, Democrats undermine judicial independence, attacking the Supreme Court’s legitimacy, expecting them to expand Second Amendment rights and narrow abortion.
Beyond threats to make the Court “pay” (Democratic Majority Leader Schumer, NY) and “revolution” (Democrat Senator Shaheen, NH), Democrats try to justify “packing” the Court.
Back in the US Senate, following a nationwide push in over 30 states for election integrity, not racism, Senate Democrats boldly paint Republicans as racist, then pushed election federalization.
Compounding the insult, Democrats attack the “filibuster,” a 150-old tradition assuring big bills are never pushed on one vote, that all is “deliberative,” that a 60-member cloture vote occurs.
What else? Democrats push defunding police, demoralizing departments coast to coast, allowing crime, riots, and homicides to surge, reducing recruitment, retention, respect, and deterrence.
Beyond unconstitutional federal mandates, Democrats killed America’s energy independence, intentionally hobbling an entire sector, causing fuel prices to spike.
Unaffordable, unnecessary, power-concentrating legislation has run up national debt, creating the worst inflation – seven percent in December – seen in four decades.
All these mistakes – compounded by disenfranchising parents over education, political indoctrination, upending cultural norms, definition of men and women, basic understandings around sports, biology, math, family rights – scare people.
In effect, when you step back – attributing public fear to January 6th, or to insecurity from COVID, is not accurate. The real reason is Democrat policies, media hysteria, rolling histrionics – the intentional spread of fear – by some in Congress and this Administration.
What worries people are not traditional mistakes made by imperfect humans in our much-respected institutions, but disrespect for those very institutions – due process, constitutional rights, Supreme Court, Senate rules, American history, law enforcement, right to self-defense, room for public dissent, respect for faith, biology, fairness in sports, parental rights.
In short, the survey – with twists and turns – is not about Biden, who is hobbled, underperforming, struggling for capacity. It is about bigger issues, going to Democrats.
The unease people feel has many causes, but fear for the Republic can be traced – in a hundred ways – to leftism, radical ideas, disrespect for core institutions and rights.
Nutshell: All this should worry Democrats in 2022, 2024 and beyond. Americans are tolerant, generous, forgiving. But when you attack what they care about – kids, rights, life – watch out.
What else can be teased from the latest poll? When rhetoric becomes negative, not praising the “greatness,” principles, and institutions of our country, but ridiculing and tearing down – optimism recedes, doubts about the future rise.
That is what anti-American, anti-history, anti-police, anti-free market, anti-faith, anti-free speech, anti-states’ rights rhetoric does. “Just over half of Americans (53 percent) expect political divisions in the country to worsen over their lifetime,” only “15 percent expect” better.
The poll synthesizes, “A fear of the enemy within, not a foreign threat, punctuates a grim assessment by Americans of a democracy in peril and a future of deepening political divisions.”
Of course, threats within are often tied to threats without. The Chinese, Russians, Iranians, terrorists, anarchists, autocrats, and anti-democratic forces worldwide would love to see more of this – Americans turning on Americans, deriding democracy.
The silver lining is, whatever our political affiliation, a large majority of Americans do not want to be divided. They resent it, will punish at the polls those pushing anti-American power-concentration. They see danger. They are right.
Bottom line: While hysteria is hard to resist, those stirring it hard to stomach, and leadership failing, there is strength in Americans. We are about courage, grounded expectations, love of freedom. While polls of one politician ebb and flow – or ebb and ebb! – bigger things are afoot.
All good stuff RBC… ” All these mistakes ” is the only thing I disagree on in an otherwise well written piece. All of what is & continues to occur under democratic leadership is by ” design “…
I’ve read some excellent positive stories on Iowa’s Governor Kim Reynolds & S. Dakota’s Governor Kristi Noem, both of these people represent true conservative based leadership our nation is so badly in need of…
Bill… :~)
The whole biden administration should be arrested, tried, and sent to GITMO for treason!!
The poll does not surprise me but the Dems won’t listen. American people will put up with only so much, then Katy bar the doors. I don’t want things to go that far but it’s coming. People love their country but are getting sick and tired of what’s going on. Dems have crossed the line when parents are told the schools know what’s best for their kids and Mom and Dad have no say. We fought for liberty once from a despot King, we can do it again if need be.
When a nation moves from being a nation of laws to a nation of men, this is what happens. Man is weak, sinful and full of him/herself. The acknowledgement of a Higher Authority is critical to keeping our nation free. The Founders understood the power of the Higher Power, which gave us the inalienable rights to do what we did those two hundred plus years ago. Will we fritter it away? Yes, if we don’t get control of our education process by again making it a learning and not a dogmatic facilitator and realizing the folly of changing history and even science to justify the nonsense we see today. If you like this change, vote for Democrats. If you don’t, vote for Constitutional Conservatives, which means that a large number of Republicans no longer fit that bill. Will it be easy? No. Can it be done? Yes, but only with a leader of the ilk of a Donald Trump to lead the way. There are several in the wings who are capable of performing that way, one of which is my state’s governor, Ron DeSantis. Let’s go America, and get things done.
We should not begin to feel so comfortable that we stop fighting for what’s right! We have won the battle but not the war YET!
I am tired of hearing from Democrats, some Republicans and Independences that our country is a democracy. It is not, and politicians of all stripes should quit saying “our democracy”. The founders of the United States feared democracy and that is why they set up the government the way that they did. Democrats want to have direct election of the President/ Vice President that is why they want to takeover the elections and make the States their administrative pawns knowing they would win every presidential election just by the majorities they would win by in California and New York alone. Small states would no longer matter which is why the Electoral College was inserted into the Constitution to give every state a voice.
No one thinks much about the historical background of the Republic anymore. But in a sense, the states are sovereign entities ceding to the federal government the powers they have. So, let’s stop talking about “our democracy” and refer to our nation as “our Republic”!
America can no longer afford a Democrats party that erodes and saws around on the foundations of its constitutional Republic at every turn, and with every bill it proposes. The Democrats have so far crossed the line of how much corruption and infringement on individual rights was tolerable to the American public that the line is a dot to them. If our federal government finally ends up smaller than the state government of Rhode Island with powers less than it then the Democrats will have no one but themselves to thank for it! A government that believes it “owns” its people, and most of all their kids, is not just sadly mistaken but begging to have budget cuts with a chainsaw clear cut method applied to it. First and foremost parties that are no longer willing to obey and abide by the U.S. Constitution.
Democrats have shot themselves in the foot (and have hit a major artery) by aligning withe the radical left. Fatal mistake.
Think you have it slightly wrong. The Nation is uniting like it has not done in years especially with the youth. Traditional divisions by government on race, income, geography, political party and such are drying up and people prefer to be called Americans (the new dirty word). Numbers show all traditional major news outlets viewership combined is not even 50% of what a single tuber Joe Rogan has. They have become irrelevant, it means 99% of people are getting news somewhere else that is not censored. Where? They found it, but it seems it cannot be counted and it is encrypted. Now the fed and phone companies are scrambling to put new spyware in your Iphone to figure out what you think. People see clearly that the problem has been in both parties, and now a new American party is forming and more democrats, independents and republicans are joining it like never before. A time of evil, builds good leaders to rise like popcorn. I think Americans want to begin with one main thing – paper ballots and citizens can only vote once, but leaders are not listening yet. All good stuff, America has woken up, this will change everything.
Well I would love to agree with the assessment in the article, I believe the conclusion is incorrect. The reason we are divided is certainly because of Democrats and their anti-American policies, but their voters, truly uninformed and in most cases stupid people, believe the fear from the media and the Democrats. They believe there’s a racist behind every Republican. The reason that the polls agree that the country is divided is because it is divided but the conclusion is that the division is real because of a lack of education about our history and our culture. The left has been indoctrinating children for 50 years at least. Look at how they treat our schools not as a place to educate, but a place for teachers to make money and brainwash kids into the LGBT lifestyle. To brainwash them into socialism. To brainwash them into communist. To brainwash white kids into hating themselves. The writers correct, the divisions are real, but the fact we have literally 45% of the population that would watch a Democrat murder someone on TV and still vote for them is a real problem.
They Ignore these polls go for Inside job polls to see them win
This is a good article. Now the message must be positive, clearly stating what we conservatives stand for, and not primarily negative, harping on everything the left does wrong. People are figuring out that nothing the left wants is helpful to our country. We need to educate the public on common sense good governance that was established by our founding fathers and supported by the institutions of family, church, schools, local law enforcement and the basic patriotic loyalty to our country. May God help those who have greatest influence to be articulate and effective in re-educating the majority of voters.
It really all boils down to election integrity . . . here in Wisconsin, an investigation by the Wisconsin Assembly headed by a former Wisc. Supreme Court justice into 2020 election cheating, the Democrat powers in Milwaukee, Madison, and Green Bay REFUSE to honor subpoenas for election data . . . not to mention the fact that we’re going into another spring election season with the highly illegal vote drop boxes still in place!!!
Surprised, but yet not surprised how concerned declared democrats are. The media works hard 24/7 to convince us that all of America supports the Biden elitists debacle. I do believe that 3/4 of America is legitimately concerned.
If sanity ruled sniffy would be at 22%, but he’s not. Hes only temporarily lost some independents and none of the zombies who vote D. It is folly to think that when summer comes sniffys approval wont rebound. Just be ready for it.
“Sky is falling”?!..I
m afraid the real situation is far more serious than that. All these global upheavals were seeing before our eyes, are “Jesus"beginning of sorrows". We are living in final days of our planets history. Jesus 2nd. coming is VERY near. And He foretold exactly that these things will be happening, shortly before his return in glory. Sorry I cant be citing all my points here, from Bible verses, but those who follow Jesus "will be wise and shine as stars". And btw. those stats showing disapproval of Biden/DNC, do not indicate that he will be impeached, or voted out in 2024, because poipular votes wont decide that. We are living in new US. in US of New World Order, where Globalist wealthy elite decides who will represent them – and us, whether we wanted it or not – in the White House. Just as in 2020 Biden had no chance as a snowball in hell, of ending up in White House. But Satanist global elite wanted him there – because of his obedience to them, and they pushed him in there, against 70% of citizens votes/wishes.My question is this: If so many Democrats are concerned about the collapse of our country then why don’t they speak out against the radical ideas in their own party that are causing the decline?? Are they all spineless or brain dead?
The way I’m feeling, these polls are useless. Democrats have shown their shameless audacity to cheat in the swing states in the 2020 elections. From what I have observed, they got away with it with total impunity. I see no reason why they won’t repeat their shenanigans in all future elections.
As I have stated before, even though it’s a rather ‘doomsday’ view; since our 2020 election was blatently stolen from us, and admittedly stated by Nancy Pelosi, it has been made clear to us that the Demo-Communist Party has sealed our fate. What seems to be their reckoning for all their treasonous actions is just ‘in your face’ we’re ok because ‘the fix is in’ and there is no way Americans will have legitimate LEGAL elections ever again! NO ONE in a representative role in our country is fixing the voter fraud issue! NO ONE is even looking at the evidence and video footage collected! We have nothing but psychotic thugs parading as official government leaders. How on earth did this country allow China’s totalitarian influence to grow so rapidly in our own country?? Chuck Schumer just might be the Antichrist leading the charge. He is a current day Judas in my opinion. Until I hear resolve from those so far, pretending to represent us, I don’t see how anything else matters until voter fraud is substancially eliminated!! And THEN there’s the illegals being allowed to vote right now!!
So then what???
How does anybody honestly have a positive view about all this???
Like I keep saying,
“ONLY GOD!!”
When you have a president who accuses the other political party of trying to bring about “Jim Crow 2” because they disagree with unsecured ballots, you can see why Americans are divided. When our president calls a conservative reporter a son of a b–ch, then you know why we’re divided. When Ukraine, Taiwan, South Korea are worried about invasion you know we are divided. Our division is not a bad thing. it means people are standing up for what they believe and not surrendering or falling in line.
I enjoy the article, however with all the bs in the press and media today how do we know articles like this aren’t slanted to make conservatives think we are winning when maybe the opposite. I can only hope that is not the case, because this country cannot survive for much longer as things continue to decline.
RBC,
What a Great article!
Yes Sir your summation of where Americans are is correct, attack our children,our rights and disrespect God given life and these marxist democrats will recieve a backlash that is unprecedented!
It’s to late for the failed democrats to salvage anything. Their actions and disdain for the real Citizens of this Country will not be forgotten or excused.
Most are plenty smart enough to know everything the democrats have shoved down the Peoples throats is anti American, self serving, divisive hatred for US and Our Country!
We will not forget , they will be held accountable!
CONTRASTS OF THE LAST 3 ADMINISTRATIONS :
I am a realist. I do not live with my head in the clouds or the sand. I have observed the undeniable contrast in the destructively discouraging, anti-American Obama years vs President Trump’s positive, encouraging words, breathing life back into the citizens with his America First goals & speaking “hope” for the future of the nation our children will inherit. But NOW, once again, we find ourselves frustrated & ANGRY as on Day 1 of “Biden & his merry band of thieves”, signed a “towering stack” of Executive Orders REVERSING many much needed, major accomplishments of President Trump’s long hours of hard work & efforts…. Democrats plan was to bring our nation’s people to “ruin” in record time with the kind of mismanagement that can only happen by PURPOSEFUL DESIGN.
I have 2 main concerns:
The first being, can we, as a nation, survive another 3 years with the “Enemy of American Freedom” at our helm?
The second being, the 2020 election was CLEARLY stolen, and the “thieves” have met with NO consequences… NONE… to dissuade them from a repeat in 2024.
Having said that, short of a true miracle from God, I am left with little hope that our nation will be returned to its former state of optimism & prosperity as it was under President Trump.
Without insurance of Election Integrity,
our best days are behind us.
One thing that I see in the”flyover”state of Illinois,which I unfortunately live in,though its NOT the chitcago area,is 99.9 percent of my customers and other friends would not ever vote for a democRAT again.We in this state are abused by the democRATS more than most other states.I have seen what they can do to a once decent state and now they have done the same to AMERICA.
MSM continues to destroy and brainwash the average American. Don’t watch MSM..tune into conservative news and keep abreast of all the current info..continue to share good decent values with your kids, grandkids..stay connected to your community in any way that will help with reform of liberal thinking, support your religious community, sign petitions, donate to conservative platforms, encourage anyone and everyone to vote conservative and Republican (especially these days)…there is so much we as American Patriots can do besides bitching…leave that to the senseless liberal Democrat!!
I’d like to believe that we’ll even have an election.
i can’t understand how a sane person can approve of the killing on our streets, people being dropped off in the middle of our country we know nothing about? these are the democrats putting us in this situation, I can’t understand why someone would want to destroy this great country?
When you have National and state leaders patting themselves on the back for leading the country down the wrong path, it’s time for them to go!
We need common sense leadership that strives to do what is best for all AMERICANS , not what they selfishly want for themselves and the lobbyists they have sold out too!
We need term limits now!
I showed my husband the picture of the thousands of mourners in NYC. Then there is a 46 mile convoy in Canada. He stepped back and said “This is my mantra – “It’s Time!” We WILL take back our country. Turn to God who is there with us, urging us forward. We can convoy or process. The people are speaking now. #TrucktheNYT.” #FJB. Yes, indeed – “Its Time!”
Leftist Communists have been at this sneakily since 1960. In 1981 they became aggressive in their undermining behavior.
The negative effects were already visible in the early to mid 70s. After the 1980s it should have been visible to everyone. That was when the Communists emptied out mental institutions all over America. Hard to miss THAT one….
Anyone still voting for these anti-America vermin is either a braindead moron or anti-America requiring deportation.
Get them all out of office or cut your own throats. You voters have left us with that choice.
Thank you for your blindness, deafness, and stupid silence.
I’m always reminded about that statement from Nikita Kruschev, said years ago,” America will fall from within”. I think he was correct.
The Democrats and Rinos have shown their Communist hand. Remember also this is a REPUBLIC not a Democracy and they have used the Courts to step on our CONSTITUTION. So remember in the upcoming elections do not count on the media to vet the candidates, do your do diligence and only elect Freedom Loving Patriotic America first CANIDATES.
We can see and feel the damage inflicted on a great country in just one year of a failing president’s “leadership”. But I would not have expected much more from someone who needed to plagiarize his college papers, only to earn a rank in the lowest 10% of his class.Total failure.
When the anti- Americans denounce, demonize and get citizens to hate and fight among one another, they expect we’ll all be too busy to watch their shenanigans. They deflect us with nonsense and false news and drama so we’ll be too busy to notice ALL the anti freedom and unconstitutional stuff they’re doing at warp speed.
We are going exactly where George Soros wants us to go.. Anarchy with a communist style GUBBERMENT take over..
Polls are meaningless.
The vote of the majority is meaningl
The vote of the majority is meaningless. The left will simply cheat as they did in the last presidential election. They will win all the time. Is anyone naive enough to believe the left will suddenly start respecting the Constitution? They believe only in winning at any cost. No morality, no legality. Republicans obey the Marquis of Queensbury Rules, the left obeys no rules, use no gloves, and use brass knuckles. Who do you think will win?
Until we fix our fraudulent elections, and when we quit being a first world banana republic, we conservatives will never gain power.
Exactly – it is a big miktake to believe winning is a sure thing. There is still a long time before November, and I shudder when I think of what happened during the last election. There is no end to the treachery of the opposition. We need to get our people out to vote.
All good stuff RBC… ” All these mistakes ” is the only thing I disagree on in an otherwise well written piece. All of what is & continues to occur under democratic leadership is by ” design “…
I’ve read some excellent positive stories on Iowa’s Governor Kim Reynolds & S. Dakota’s Governor Kristi Noem, both of these people represent true conservative based leadership our nation is so badly in need of…
Bill… :~)
The whole biden administration should be arrested, tried, and sent to GITMO for treason!!
The poll does not surprise me but the Dems won’t listen. American people will put up with only so much, then Katy bar the doors. I don’t want things to go that far but it’s coming. People love their country but are getting sick and tired of what’s going on. Dems have crossed the line when parents are told the schools know what’s best for their kids and Mom and Dad have no say. We fought for liberty once from a despot King, we can do it again if need be.
When a nation moves from being a nation of laws to a nation of men, this is what happens. Man is weak, sinful and full of him/herself. The acknowledgement of a Higher Authority is critical to keeping our nation free. The Founders understood the power of the Higher Power, which gave us the inalienable rights to do what we did those two hundred plus years ago. Will we fritter it away? Yes, if we don’t get control of our education process by again making it a learning and not a dogmatic facilitator and realizing the folly of changing history and even science to justify the nonsense we see today. If you like this change, vote for Democrats. If you don’t, vote for Constitutional Conservatives, which means that a large number of Republicans no longer fit that bill. Will it be easy? No. Can it be done? Yes, but only with a leader of the ilk of a Donald Trump to lead the way. There are several in the wings who are capable of performing that way, one of which is my state’s governor, Ron DeSantis. Let’s go America, and get things done.
We should not begin to feel so comfortable that we stop fighting for what’s right! We have won the battle but not the war YET!
I am tired of hearing from Democrats, some Republicans and Independences that our country is a democracy. It is not, and politicians of all stripes should quit saying “our democracy”. The founders of the United States feared democracy and that is why they set up the government the way that they did. Democrats want to have direct election of the President/ Vice President that is why they want to takeover the elections and make the States their administrative pawns knowing they would win every presidential election just by the majorities they would win by in California and New York alone. Small states would no longer matter which is why the Electoral College was inserted into the Constitution to give every state a voice.
No one thinks much about the historical background of the Republic anymore. But in a sense, the states are sovereign entities ceding to the federal government the powers they have. So, let’s stop talking about “our democracy” and refer to our nation as “our Republic”!
America can no longer afford a Democrats party that erodes and saws around on the foundations of its constitutional Republic at every turn, and with every bill it proposes. The Democrats have so far crossed the line of how much corruption and infringement on individual rights was tolerable to the American public that the line is a dot to them. If our federal government finally ends up smaller than the state government of Rhode Island with powers less than it then the Democrats will have no one but themselves to thank for it! A government that believes it “owns” its people, and most of all their kids, is not just sadly mistaken but begging to have budget cuts with a chainsaw clear cut method applied to it. First and foremost parties that are no longer willing to obey and abide by the U.S. Constitution.
Democrats have shot themselves in the foot (and have hit a major artery) by aligning withe the radical left. Fatal mistake.
Think you have it slightly wrong. The Nation is uniting like it has not done in years especially with the youth. Traditional divisions by government on race, income, geography, political party and such are drying up and people prefer to be called Americans (the new dirty word). Numbers show all traditional major news outlets viewership combined is not even 50% of what a single tuber Joe Rogan has. They have become irrelevant, it means 99% of people are getting news somewhere else that is not censored. Where? They found it, but it seems it cannot be counted and it is encrypted. Now the fed and phone companies are scrambling to put new spyware in your Iphone to figure out what you think. People see clearly that the problem has been in both parties, and now a new American party is forming and more democrats, independents and republicans are joining it like never before. A time of evil, builds good leaders to rise like popcorn. I think Americans want to begin with one main thing – paper ballots and citizens can only vote once, but leaders are not listening yet. All good stuff, America has woken up, this will change everything.
Well I would love to agree with the assessment in the article, I believe the conclusion is incorrect. The reason we are divided is certainly because of Democrats and their anti-American policies, but their voters, truly uninformed and in most cases stupid people, believe the fear from the media and the Democrats. They believe there’s a racist behind every Republican. The reason that the polls agree that the country is divided is because it is divided but the conclusion is that the division is real because of a lack of education about our history and our culture. The left has been indoctrinating children for 50 years at least. Look at how they treat our schools not as a place to educate, but a place for teachers to make money and brainwash kids into the LGBT lifestyle. To brainwash them into socialism. To brainwash them into communist. To brainwash white kids into hating themselves. The writers correct, the divisions are real, but the fact we have literally 45% of the population that would watch a Democrat murder someone on TV and still vote for them is a real problem.
They Ignore these polls go for Inside job polls to see them win