Americans are now more concerned about terrorism than the economy (we are a nation of pantshitters)

[Cali_Democrat]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/obama-economy-not-biggest-priority-pew

The economy is not the top priority for Americans heading into 2015, the Pew Research Center reported Thursday, the first time that another issue has been at the top of the public mind under President Barack Obama.

Terrorism has eclipsed the economy as the biggest issue for Americans, the group's annual survey of the public's policy priorities found, being named by 76 percent of Americans as a top priority for Obama and Congress.

The economy was pegged by 75 percent -- which is still a big number, but it represented a 11-point drop from 2013. Likewise, the job situation was picked by 67 percent, the third priority behind the economy and terrorism, but it has also fallen by 12 points in the last two years.


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This is ridiculous.

How fucking dumb is this country?

What are the odds that you will die in a terrorist attack?

Virtually zero.

[fredamae]

1. MSM Has Performed Their Job

Very Well.....Injecting FEAR into the masses.

[Scuba]

22. Bingo!

[randys1]

2. Pansthitters LOL

You got me on that one, very funny.


The real terrorism has an R after their name

[CJCRANE]

3. And this is how economic populism is pushed off the agenda. nt

[hifiguy]

6. Yup. n/t

[J_J_]

4. Is it possible someone is just lying/manufacturing consent?

Kinda like when we were told that polls show we all approve of torture now?

[hifiguy]

5. Man this country gets dumber by the day.

I can swear you can HEAR it get dumber on quiet nights. We are doomed.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. Je suis Ted Nugent!..... ahem.... Pardon, Je Ne Suis Pas Ted Nugent! nt

[winstars]

8. Thanks Wolf Blitzer, Don Lemon and the rest of the Terror Analyst Industrial Complex!!!

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. we are addicted to fear.

We like endless drama too.

[Go Vols]

10. That's pretty fucked up

:/

[Ferd Berfel]

11. Like Sheep to the slaughter, every damn time

As a nation, we have been programmed to fear the wrong damn things. The short attention span just mitigates the problem




Favorite Quote:
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

[hifiguy]

15. One of my all time favorite quotes

and one of the most truthful things ever said by anyone, anywhere, at any time.

[Warren Stupidity]

12. That Depends.

[bvf]

40. LOL!

[Bandit]

13. "Home of the Brave"

It sounds like ninety percent of those surveyed were Republicans.

[mindwalker_i]

19. My thoughts exactly

People have a much higher chance of being killed by a bad economy or lack of job.

[easychoice]

31. or no healthcare.that has killed millions I am sure

My Dr.'s practice has doubled this year.Wanna guess why? Paid healthcare

[mindwalker_i]

38. Yup, and people are worried about terrorism

Which has a MUCH lower probability of affecting them.

[easychoice]

46. I couldn't believe the reaction after 911

I think gun mishandling and J walking should get some serious statistical scrutiny too.OH! them potheads too!

[Blue_Tires]

14. On the flipside I don't think "the environment" has ever cracked the top 20 list...

[Fred Sanders]

16. The Terror Channel 1, Fox News, and The Terror Channel 2, CNN , have a lot to do with it.

Look at it this way, the economy has improved so much in folks minds, the fear of medical bill bankruptcy and losing your job has receded so much, and now that Fearbola is passé, now folks are free to make terrorism their fear du jour?

[Egnever]

17. Pant shitters

Sums it up nicely. One need only look back at the six years of madness that followed 9/11 to see what an epic bunch of pant shitters this country is made of.

[oberliner]

18. We should be

The economy is in really good shape right now, thanks in part to Obama's two terms in office.

[Fred Sanders]

24. America should be more concerned about terrorism than the economy, jobs, climate change,

immigration, income equality, poverty...terrorism concern should be the top one?

Because it beat out an improving economy? Anything else?

[oberliner]

42. Each individual American can be concerned about whatever they want

I for one am glad to hear that Americans are less concerned about the economy now than they used to be.

[Glassunion]

20. Odds...

Here are some odds on dying...

1 : 19,000 - Car Accident (it's a tad higher for us motorcycle riders)
1 : 99,000 - Building Fire
1 : 800,000 - Drowning in a tub
1 : 2,500,000 - Killed by the Police
1 : 5,500,000 - Struck by lightning
1 : 20,000,000 - Terrorism

[oberliner]

43. Where did you get those figures from?

Just curious to know the source.

[Glassunion]

48. A Google search and a NYT article.

I don't have a link, it was hours ago and I'm posting from my phone.

On edit: I do recall the numbers being annual odds, not lifetime. The breakdown was that post 9/11 we have been averaging about 16 American deaths per year. It broke down each incident year by year since 2001.

[COLGATE4]

21. FUX has performed its task admirably -

the 24 hour "Be afraid - be deathly afraid" channel reaps its rewards after years of making people be afraid of their own shadows. "Terra"- check. "Ebola" - check. "The Muslin in the White House" check. "Furriners" - check. "Black or brown folk" - check. They're a one trick pony.

[Fred Sanders]

23. CNN is also doing a great job....the MSM is also chipping in...remember when the top fear was Ebola?

Something has to be number one in the fear list.

[Augustus]

25. .

[EEO]

37. USA USA USA

[Drale]

26. What about the economic terrorism that the Repukes

are going to try the next few years?

[dirtydickcheney]

27. I'm like 5x more likely to die from lightning than terrorism. /nt

[90-percent]

28. This has irked me for a hell of a long time

Manufacturing consent.

Modern MSM = agenda driven corporate propaganda. The Koch's and the authoritarians in our government probably have thousands of misinformation psy-ops nobel prize winning people working 24/7 to manufacture what they want us to think.

"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." - Frank Zappa

Our Oligarch's really know how to crank the average American fear level up to 11. And all this fear mongering is done because it serves their ends, which I guess is pretty much for all of us to say "To hell with all those Constitutional Rights we fought world wars to preserve, just please please please don't let all the muzzies kill my whole family!"


http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=123706


-90%

[kairos12]

29. Shrub said go shopping after 911. Today people think going to the mall

is an act of defiance. Pantshitters, shopping for more depends. Makes me retch.

[Ford_Prefect]

30. We no longer have real Journalism here. Only Attitude adjustment via MSM.

Robert Crumb nailed it an interview responding to the attack on Charlie Hebdo :

You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.

http://observer.com/2015/01/legendary-cartoonist-robert-crumb-on-the-massacre-in-paris/

[blackspade]

32. Thanks M$M....

Assholes.

[SpearthrowerOwl]

33. But Terrorism *IS* The Economy

The United States as we know it "needs" terrorism. Military spending has always been the Keynesianism of the right. A large percentage of the nation's physicists and other high-tech professionals work in the military-industrial complex sector. It's a great way to get the public to spend on scientific innovation, but to receive little of the benefits -- military contractors are private companies.

It takes a whole lot of fancy ideology to obscure the basic workings of the system.

Terrorism *is* the economy.

[blkmusclmachine]

34. Keep em scared. That's the best way to rob them of their freedom/democracy. Fuck, they'll WILLINGLY

give EVERYTHING away to the 1%...


Really makes you question exactly how much George W. Bush really knew about 9/11, and exactly when he knew it.

[Fearless]

35. No thanks. I'd rather be worreid about the economy.

[Thespian2]

36. Hard to say how dumb

many Americans are. The absolute dumbest, in my estimation, are the Turd Party types who joyfully run to the voters booth to vote against their own best interests. Then brag about how intelligent they are that they got "them bastards who'r ruinin' they'er country."

[project_bluebook]

39. For me terroism is at the top of my concern list

I'm talking about the terrorist majority in the House, Senate and most states.

[hopemountain]

41. awwww, bullshit.

the majority of americans are too busy trying to put food in their and their kid's bellies and keep the roof over their heads - if they have one. they are too busy surviving. says me.

[Douglas Carpenter]

44. maybe it's because of all the Islamist controlled no-go areas for none-Muslims throughout the U.S.?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

45. Hairy, scary, Bogeymen frighten the public easier than the plight of the poor or global warming.

But, all of it will be forgotten when the next celebrity sex scandal steals the headlines.

[SammyWinstonJack]

47. Land of the Free and Home of the Brave....