35 percent of all Americans now say the country needs a revolution. That includes 39 percent of Harris voters and 32 percent of Trump voters.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/02/poll-american-dream-polarization-00632538
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/02/poll-american-dream-polarization-00632538
27 Comments
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone · 29 pts · 303d
I'm amazed only half think America is not a functioning democracy. American "democracy" is totally broken.
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 303d
They're talking about voters. Most people didn't.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 303d
1/3 didn't. That's not good, but it's not most people.
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 303d
Oh, I got it backwards. I thought 1/3 did.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · -2 pts · 303d
1/3 was for Kamala, a little bigger 1/3 for Trump and the rest don't deserve citizenship.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 302d
I heard they have some free spots in North Korea. Maybe you should move there.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 302d
I'd prefer Australia where voting is compulsory. Maybe if we got a free sausage with voting lazy ass Americans would show up to do their civic fucking duty. If you don't vote your opinion doesn't matter.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 303d
It's also the highest voter participation we have ever had in the history of our country
Only 25% of the country voted during the Great Depression
Infinite@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 303d
This is more than a little bit wrong.
Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections | The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/voter-turnout-in-presidential-elections
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 303d
You could say it's broken. I'd say it doesn't really exist and only ever appeared to when those pulling the levers wanted it to seem that way.
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 303d
It did exist briefly, but it was swiftly broken and from the very start was just designed poorly (e.g. political parties are basically entirely incompatible with the shitty voting system). It sometimes briefly semi-works before shortly after collapsing again.
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -2 pts · 303d
Same people who think peaceful protest at this point in time will yield results.
bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 304d
And how many of that 35% are willing to take the risk of it becoming a civil war?
DancingBear@midwest.social · 11 pts · 304d
Chulk@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 304d
The civil war is inevitable and has already started. The instigators are being hired by ICE.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 304d
Arguably all revolutions are civil wars.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 2 pts · 304d
Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 303d
I'd say its about 99.9% of both groups. I mean, Trump got elected, and no one stopped it. Americans can't be that attatched to a functioning democracy. Or human rights. Or not having a rapist treasonous dementia ridden piece of shit steering our country into the plantery core. Off hand, I can only think of about 4 people who id consider the true americans of this generation, and i think all four of those people are right wingers sadly. As much as i hate right wingers, it does seem like if the country is ever to be improved, itll be a lone right winger to do it.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 1 pts · 303d
SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social · 1 pts · 303d
Just about everything about this comment is factually incorrect. There were two incidents. In the first, a group of people (allegedly) were setting off fireworks and spray-painting vehicles, fled from responding local police, and one of the group shot at them and injured an officer. In the second incident, a disturbed individual fired and killed a detainee, injuring two others. Then he killed himself.
So, no anarchists, no ICE personnel shot, and it was easy to find the news stories about both incidents. ICE has shot several people, and begun using more violent tactics, so it would at appear that they are escalating.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 2 pts · 303d
Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 302d
I had already posted the exact story at the time he posted his comment. Its literally the comment above his lol. Wild.
SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social · 2 pts · 302d
I read several news pieces about the incident. You should read the Wikipedia article when linking it. One local police officer was wounded, no ICE personnel were shot. Three detainees were shot in a separate incident in Dallas. The John Brown Gun Club isn't anarchist. So, as I said, no anarchists, no ICE personnel shot, it was easy to find news stories (and a Wikipedia article) about the incident, and ICE is escalating their violent tactics.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 303d
Best hope for an amicable divorce.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 302d
The Harris and Trump voters will be on opposite sides of that revolution.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 303d
and how does the distribution of gun-ownership fall between these two groups of people?
Netux@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 303d
Much closer than you would probably expect. The left just doesn't make it their whole personality.
discosnails@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 303d
The demographics of gun ownership in the U.S. | Pew Research Center https://share.google/Pz2KRohaJ1GEqWMEV
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 303d
Everybody says they want a revolutions, but nobody wants to take responsibility for the inevitable civil war that follows. -I don't remember where I heard that but it seems relevant here.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 303d
Don't forget that some people lie to surveys to skew the results.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 302d
we should just take a state, like Arizona, and set a date to ship all the folks willing to fight and let them duke it out.
no guns, no blades, just fists and legs. you don't get food or water either. when you give up you can be reintroduced to society or continue living in the Arizona hellscape of your own creation.