Many respondents believe the US economy is already in dire straits, the poll found
More than four in 10 Americans believe the country is heading toward a complete economic meltdown within the next decade, according to a new poll.
The survey, released by YouGov on Wednesday, shows Americans are more worried about the economy than potential threats to the democratic system or the prospect of civil war.
42% of respondents said it is very or somewhat likely that there will be “a total economic collapse” in the next 10 years, while a smaller share, 38%, described this outcome as unlikely.
Financial anxiety ran much higher among Democrats, 53% of whom feared an economic breakdown, compared with just 28% of Republicans.
10 years? I’m pretty sure 10 months is 50/50 odds at this point…
I have insight to a company that does automotive loans, and the number of people getting offers for 30% APR 84 month 0-down loans (and accepting them) is way too fucking high.
People can’t really afford cars. The US government considers domestic car production so important, that we are practically banned from buying “better” cheaper cars made in China. The auto manufacturers know this and are absolutely chowing down in the captive market. The working class is going to lose reliable transportation, at the same time companies (and the government) are pushing to end Work-from-home options, and there is basically 0 public transportation in the US.
So a lot of people aren’t going to be able to afford the systemically artificially inflated cars to get to their arbitrarily in-office jobs and they can’t reasonably take the systemically hobbled/non-existent bus or train.
Oh, did I mention that we’ve pissed off and mistreated and deported all of the migrant labor that made fresh food widely available and cheap in the US? Oh, and we also emptied critical agricultural water reserves in a smooth-brain attempt to fight a fire 200 miles away. Don’t forget, global shipping and fuel prices are fucked because of a war we decided to start to distract from the fact that the president is practically in the Epstein files more than Epstein himself? So come summer, we’re going to have no food because we have no water and no labor, and importing food is going to be even more expensive? And that’s before the capricious 100%+ tarrifs the president is slapping on everything via a fucking tweet.
Come on… I don’t think I could fuck up running a county this bad if I was actively trying.
You have to be joking, 84 month 30%??
They sell them on the amount someone would pay per payment, tell people for just $400 every other week they too can drive away in their
dreamfunctional car/truck.Its the same idea of the 15 easy payments of $19.99 shit from long ago. Issue is people need a way to work so they justify the cost the same as rent and food (that are also squeezing people).
And just like the subprime crisis in 2007 all it takes is one life event and it all goes off the rails.
Not joking.
I hate how right you are. And half the country is going to cheer it on without even understanding. And when things do go to shit they’ll find some minority group to blame it on and their base will eat it up.
they really should be called the trump files…
They are doing these types of loans with houses too. This is after the bubble popped due to the relaxation of variable rate mortgages. Stop the fucking world, I want to get off.
people be like “we don’t hate republicans; we just hate their policies” and i’m like nah fuck that if every elected republican politician died i’d be celebrating.
I mean that still kinda counts, like i haye amazon and its leadership but i dont hate amazon employees/labor
Every day I wake up hoping it’s the day that Donald Trump is no longer politically active. That’s a real earned hate that I actually wish I didn’t have.
MIT stats says it’s less than 10 years. Expects world wide full breakdowns by 2030 due to climate change. You thought the holocaust was bad.
Climate change won’t be the cause, it’s the debt we have been building up for the last 2 decades.
Don’t we always fear this and rightfully so because every 10 years we have an economic meltdown now?
Years? Try months. Second year of his first term was when the economy first stumbled.
It’s weird that Republicans aren’t more fearful given that farmers got crushed last year, and fertilizer prices are skyrocketing this year. Both due to the pedophile.
As a farmer who warned my friends and neighbors about this fact during and after the election, the déjà vu of all of this is absolutely not worth the wait. We’ve literally been here before. And it was bad bad.
I’ve never wanted to say “I fucking told you so”
I still don’t.
But here we are. And they still somehow have no idea. Its fucking wild.
The worst part is knowing and being powerless despite it all. The most frustrating ones are the people that see the signs and are preparing. Hell they will probably survive it too. Lick their wounds and trudge on again. But they never once hit the point where they realize their actions are the reason this is happening.
I’m hitting the point where I don’t dread the collapse anymore. In the most nhiallistic of senses, Im starting welcome it. And I’m so damn disappointed that it’s gotten to this point.
Financial anxiety ran much higher among Democrats, 53% of whom feared an economic breakdown, compared with just 28% of Republicans.
That’s because a hard requirement to be a Republican in 2026 is to maintain a complete disregard for obvious facts and an utter disdain for realities that do not match a fantasy of their own greatness.
I mean, it keeps happening.
And we have to keep watching Boomers live their best lives while knowing we won’t have what they have.
So yeah, the pessimism is warranted.
They have what they have because they produced the best products in the world, and were more than 50% of the worlds GDP. They then offshored all the jobs overseas and the country is living on borrowed money. We are only 24% of the worlds GDP now, so even if we had zero debt, we would have half the life boomers did. The only way we will have their life is convincing the world to lend us money and passing off the debt to the next generation.
Next 10 years?
Motherfucker, it is currently ongoing.
Fucking goddamn, Americans are propogandized as fuck.
I think we’re in the process of collapsing, not collapsed yet. Bad timing for me, I just landed the best job I’ve ever had by a wide margin. I’ve been approaching fight-or-flight mode for a while. Fortunately I’m in California and I haven’t been personally affected that much, yet, other than the psychological damage from reading/watching the news.
Don’t feel guilty about carving out a nice slice of life for yourself amid the chaos. Congrats on the job.
Thanks :)
Hello, fellow future citizen of the New California Republic
Hope you have a plan for increasing wildfires, inusrance costs going to the moon, being able to get around town and get to work with $150+ a barrel oil, and when Lake Mead and Lake Powell’s water levels get lower, and lower, and lower.
They get low enough, Hoover Dam stops generating power.
That happens, the US SouthWest powergrid starts to look worse than Texas’, real fast.
I think I’m somewhat ready for everything you listed except a water shortage. Not too worried about that at this point, we periodically get large amounts of rain and my drinking water comes from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir. If/when I can get my hands on an Aptera that’ll be reassuring as well.
Yeah, but it’s collapsed when it’s over, the next couple years of collapsing is the worst part
“It’s collapsing now” is included in “will collapse in the next ten years”
Duh
Must be infuriating to do a survey on the American public. No matter what you are trying to find out around 50-60% are just going to drool on your survey and maybe draw a phallic symbol with a giant crayon.
Idiocracy was a documentary.
If only. The president in that film cared for his people, and sought experts.
I once did a workstudy job where we did data entry of the results of surveys.
The survey clearly said just fill out these bubbles, etc., and that it was basically a multiple choice thing. No comments would end up in the results. Something you would think any idiot would understand.
And yet, you’d sometimes get entire manifestos written in the white spaces between questions, and the margins. I think at the time, OBE (outcome based education) was something that had the conservatives all outraged for whatever reason, because there were several screeds about it.
My coworkers and I got a good laugh out of some of this, that’s for sure. The best was when they wrote their screed, mailed it in, and didn’t fill out any of the questions. LOL!
And yeah, for all that did, they might as well as got out the crayons and drew a dong on it…
30%*
No the 60% who don’t vote
I dont fear. I welcome. And really its my main financial benefit.
As do many who come from nothing or have nothing.
I’m thankful as a Canadian I came from meagre beginnings and my dad was a post-war baby in bombed our London. I have first hand experience in knowing what nothing is.
Let it burn.
In 2015, I used to say “A vote for trump is a vote for total system collapse.”
Glad to see I was right.
In 2024, in this very group, I told people voting for Trump is voting for more genocide over there AND genocide over here…
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Quit thretening me with a good time
Are you, though?
Signs point to no, but it depends what the outcome is in 5-10 years. Each time it swings one way too far, the result is the other way going even further. If this swings super hard left we could see an end to the GOP functionally… which I can’t imagine happening but anything is possible if the left resurgence is strong enough.
The fallout for this to happen though really requires the administration to fall even further, which everything points to.
Is that how Weeks is spelled now?
My 401k has lost 7% since the war. Trump has ruined all of our savings and investments. I also have to cancel all my trips cause gas is too expensive.
Have the day 70million wankees voted for.
Yea my retirement account has lost however much. And every single morning I still wake up and will the market to drop like lead.
Unfortunately, it’s being manipulated from the top at this point, and it won’t drop until they’ve all safeguarded their money.
I expect a massive economic collapse every 5-10 years.
Which is about how often conservatives get full government power. I wonder if the two are related…
