A QUARTER OF AMERICANS OPEN TO TAKING UP ARMS AGAINST GOVERNMENT, POLL SAYS

Fri 01 July 2022:

Over a quarter of US citizens believe it may “soon be necessary to take up arms” against their government, according to a recent study by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics (IOP).

There is severe polarization in US politics, according to the survey, which was conducted among 1,000 US citizens who are registered voters.

Additionally, it shows that the majority of Americans believe that “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me”.

The survey was released when a congressional committee held open hearings on the uprising of January 6, which was motivated by the erroneous, partisan, and pro-Donald Trump notion that Joe Biden did not win the 2020 election.

GOP Trump loyalists have insisted that the committee is illegitimate although the violent insurrectionists targeted Republicans and Democrats alike.

Republicans, Democrats and independents were dramatically split even though 56 per cent of participants said they “generally trust elections to be conducted fairly and counted accurately”.

While 80 per cent of Democrats voiced overall trust in elections it dipped to 51 per cent among independents and a mere 33 per cent of Republicans.

Republican pollster Neil Newhouse, who conducted the survey in May with Democratic pollster Joel Benenson, issued a statement saying “While we’ve documented for years the partisan polarisation in the country, these poll results are perhaps the starkest evidence of the deep divisions in partisan attitudes rippling through the country.”

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