American Anger

Political polls have become more and more inaccurate because 90% of our people refuse to participate in them--and because the pollsters have no good way to reach cell phone users. Another reason is the kinds of questions they use. They ask, for example, "Do you approve of the way President Obama is leading the government?" About 30% will say no, because Obama is too far to the right and 30% will say no because Obama is too far to the left. The report is that 60% disapprove of Obama, which blurs reality beyond comprehension.

Yesterday a report came out on American anger. It seems that 49% of Americans claim to be more angry now than they were a year ago. At least that's how they remember it today. Young people support BLM--they are angry that unarmed black men get killed by the police at a rate of about one a week. Old white Reagan Democrats are angry because the Latinos they hire to landscape their yards lack green cards. The Left is convinced that the system has been rigged by our oligarchy, reducing social mobility (we now rank about 23rd in the world). The Right is convinced that the system has been rigged by the Left to enrich lazy women, African-Americans, Latinos and Muslims.  Revolting idiots in cowboy hats gathered in an armed group in an Oregon bird sanctuary to demand the release of two convicted felons. And so on. 

The most angry group, in this poll, were white women. I don't know why they were the most angry. Maybe they have noticed that their grown children are underemployed and have no future or maybe they are frightened that America's armed forces can't stand up to the puny forces of extremism, particularly in Oregon.