American Anger: 58% Say Are “Furious About America’s Politics” Compared To 49% In January, 37% Support #OWS
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
10/21/2011
The Arab Spring, which yesterday claimed its first brutal televized murder, confirming that the new regime is unfortunately in no way more civilized or humane than the old one, is slowly gaining ever more traction, and those in power who think they are immune from the basest of human emotions like Gadaffi thought, even in so-called civilized countries, may be surprised to discover otherwise. According to a new AP-GfK poll, 37% of respondents back “Occupy Wall Street” and its various offshoot variants. As can be expected, “A majority of those protest supporters are Democrats, but the anger about politics in general is much more widespread, the poll indicates.” What is more disturbing is that nearly two thirds of respondents are openly expressing anger with everything that is wrong in America, even if they can’t quite place their affiliation with either the Tea-Party of the #OWS movement. “58 percent say they are furious about America’s politics. The number of angry people is growing as deep reservoirs of resentment grip the country.” The number was 49% in January – in other words it is rising with meteoric speed. And with the topic of Marxism lately quite prevalent if for purely intellectual masturbation purposes, perhaps the practical implications of Marxist “discontent” should also be considered, and the defining question becomes what will be the tipping point beyond which silent protest and peaceful occupation morphs into something far worse.
As for the actual broad sentiment, we couldn’t agree more with the following statement:
“They’ve got reasons to be upset, they’ve got reasons to protest, but they’re protesting against the wrong people,” Jan Jarrell, 54, a retired school custodian from Leesville, S.C., says of the New York demonstrators. “They need to go to Washington, to Congress and the White House. They’re the ones coming up with all the rules.”
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