According to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll, political civility has declined in America. Likely voters who responded to the question said they expect political violence to increase in the next few years.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey found that 72% of 1,083 likely voters say, in thinking about the overall tone and civility in American politics over recent years, the level of civility has gotten worse. Just 12% think the level of civility has gotten better, and another 12% believe it has stayed about the same. (The survey question wording is here.)
Rasmussen Reports is known for a high degree of accuracy. In 2024, it was one of five major national pollster that accurately predicted Donald Trump’s win.
We need Bob Marley back.
There was once a time when love was the correction for all problems.
Maybe that time is now.
Nasty women. Apparently, they are set to change the world. I pray they don’t ‘ring in’ a global caliphate. They should pray for that as well.
Are we ready to repeal the 19th Amendment yet?
Cute, but no!
What we have really lost is the respect for one another and the ability to respect other opinions other than our own. It used to be that you respected the office, if you could not respect the person (Bill Clinton comes to mind), but now it is your way or the highway and everyone else is some name or other….really pathetic!
The democrats and leftist organizations are pushing violence. They’ve been actively destroying their own cities and businesses without any police or government resistance. If they attempt the same shit in the rural areas there in for a shock.
And that growing lack of incivility has originated almost exclusively from the radical left, from the likes of Whidbey the Dog, cman and Sebastian.
That is because in their far-left eyes, anyone opposed to their religion of omnipotent government is not just a political opponent, but a heretic who must be crucified and exterminated.
Exhibit A
100%, Mr. Jefferson. They are trolls trying to invite violence through crafted warnings among conservative groups. It is their call to arms. However, my friends (woman) are avid 2nd Amendment proponents, and yes, we carry. Bring it on little women.
You are 100% correct Jefferson . These people are self serving lunatics. You can not reason with unreasonable people. They are actually a waste of good breathing air. Very violent people. Sad situation their childhoods must have been hell.
We needed a poll to tell us that?
What we need is Classy women with MORALS wanting real change. Nothing else! These things are mentally unhinged running around like they are.
Not one liberal I know online or in person is willing to talk (and listen) to any opposing views.
Not a single one.
Same here. Thomas Their opinion is the only opinion they accept. They can’t negotiate and they can’t reason. It’s their way or the highway. It must be a terrible way to live.
They even reject efficiency in government, they don’t want it.
They would rather the government control every aspect of their lives which is bizarre because the same group in the 60s 70s and 80s wanted less government and more freedom a 180 degree change in direction. Add the main stream media’s insanity to this and we have an impending disaster looming. One they absolutely won’t win. My Right wing opinion is I want a very efficient effective government that works for the tax payers and a safe healthy hardworking country. Is what I want to much to ask for??
Not making assumptions here, but you are talking about leftists, not liberals. There is a world of difference between the two.
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I know plenty of liberals, and can have very good conversations with them about current events. And I know lots of leftists that I cannot disagree with in any way without backlash bordering on violence.
We need BOTH sides to keep watch of their OWN sides or this race will continue to be to the bottom.
Of course history is bound to repeat itself.
Look at how many people were slaughtered before the civil war ended.
Bloodiest battle yet over the idea of slavery.
Now riots are taking place over middle eastern skirmishes resulting from terror attacks.
How many people would step up to the plate to assassinate the President if they could get close enough.
Rough times ahead for sure.
. The most hateful entitled people I know are democrats.
I can remember when all the fighting used to take place during political campaigns and then people settled down to talk and listen to each other and hammer out the compromises that worked for at least most of us. Now it’s all dirty tricks and innuendos against the other party and be sure to not cooperate with a governor who spent the majority of his life in all areas of education and could have fixed the education problem or at least made the system much better except that we have too many members in the legislature who are bound by ideology. What a shame!
As long as dems and their big $$$ backers get away with funding rent a mobs, we will have political violence. The recent problem has been arrests of the puppets while ignoring the puppeteers. Time to target the puppeteers. Cheers –
Hey Alex, who are the conservatives running for Chugach board?
Check out “The Three Languages of Politics” by Arnold Kling. Kling argues that our political discourse is dysfunctional because we look at the world through lenses that our political opponents do not share. Liberals see the world as a battle between victims and oppressors; Conservatives see the world as a battle between civilization and barbarism; Libertarians see the world as a battle between freedom and coercion. Each viewpoint is right to a certain degree and wrong to a certain degree. One use of Kling’s taxonomy is how easy it makes predicting how various groups will respond to any particular policy issue. But it is particularly useful for understanding why we struggle to get along with each other and why our political debates are so fruitless. Liberals can’t understand the views of conservatives, conservatives have no respect for liberals and neither group respects libertarians. That lack of respect leads to moral self-righteousness and endangers discourse. It also leads to a great deal of intolerance.
You can bet ninety eight percent of those twits don’t even know why they are there.
When suffragettes become insufferable.
These lost men and women create their own misery, if they can’t create it for themselves their parasitic need for misery drives them to find others like them. Bloated, unintelligent, uncivil, ranting harpies.
Where are MRAK’s dedicated leftists defending violence from the left, all while claiming it is the right that is causing it?
Come on people! You know who you are, step up to the plate. When the left riots, it is because the right drove them to it. When the right has a violent event (J6 anyone? I can’t think of any others.), the left uses it for years as proof the right are nothing but thugs. Nothing from our favorites? No reminders of January 6th?
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Disappointed.
Violence sucks. Disrespect is poisoning us. If MRA is noticing that the world is a better place when we treat our political opponents with love and respect I agree and I’m glad. I don’t really have much to say about it until I’m convinced that her newfound interest in civility is genuine.