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Terrifying New Poll Lists Everything Americans Fear Will Happen To The US Within 10 Years
A new YouGov poll has revealed what Americans believe will happen to the United States in the next 10 years. And it’s pretty terrifying.
Amid war, deadly incidents involving ICE agents, partial government shutdowns and continued economic uncertainty, not many Americans are all too optimistic about the future.
Even by recent standards, it has been a tense time across the United States in recent months. President Donald Trump launching a war on Iran, while criticizing NATO allies, seeing gas prices skyrocket and threatening to annex various countries around the world, has all made for a panicked atmosphere across America.
ICE agents are currently being brought into airports across America to aid TSA agents, with airport security teams understaffed due to the partial government shutdown.
Naturally, this has further heightened tensions with travellers, seeing armed ICE agents patrolling airports as they attempt to navigate customs.
Needless to say, Americans are not predicting a rosy future full of flying cars and Big Macs that are actually good for you.
New YouGov Poll reflects tense time around America
Given that World War Three is constantly in the headlines, alongside advice about what to do in the event of a nuclear war, it’s unsurprising that people across the United States are not holding out high hopes for America transforming into some sort of blissful utopia over the next decade.
The war in Iran is significantly impacting the flow of oil out of the Strait of Hormuz. Given that the Strait controls much of the supply of oil for the rest of the world, missile attacks in the area are causing gas prices to increase at an alarming rate.
Add to this the fact that the constant bombardment of Iran has seen over a dozen American service members killed in retaliatory strikes and is also costing billions in US taxpayers’ dollars, per the BBC, and there is a negative mood from coast to coast at present.
The partial government shutdown is causing chaos at airports across the US, with queues of travellers snaking around airport terminals and often even outside them, as passengers struggle to make or miss their flights entirely.
ICE being sworn in to aid TSA agents, as reported by Al Jazeera, has done little to quell the issues, either, given the deadly incidents involving the agency in Minnesota earlier this year, in which two American citizens were killed.
Multiple other citizens and immigrants with no criminal records have been detained and held in detention centres for months on end.
Oh, and there’s the Epstein files too, millions of pages of which have still not been disclosed, with millions more being heavily redacted.
New YouGov poll paints a bleak picture
A new YouGov poll was depressingly bleak on behalf of America’s projected future.
And ahead of November’s midterm elections, it’s not exactly promising for the Trump administration either.
With recent opinion polls reflecting poorly on Trump and his government, the results of the YouGov poll are hardly much better.
The economy
Given that Trump ran his 2024 Presidential election campaign primarily on how he would improve the economy, it should strike fear into Republicans that almost half of Americans polled (42 percent) believe there will be ‘total economic collapse’ in the next decade.
Civil war and dictatorship
Gravely, a serious number of Americans believe their country is heading towards a civil war and eventual dictatorship.
Twenty-five percent of those polled believe there will be a dictator in America in their lifetime. While almost everyone polled believed this to be a bad thing, two percent said they would welcome an American dictator.
Elsewhere, 36 percent of people polled expected another civil war to erupt in the United States, with 35 percent expecting the US to gain more territory and 31 percent saying the US will fail to exist as a democracy within their lifetime.
Immigration
One of the hottest topics of Trump’s second term in the White House has been immigration. One year ago, 47 percent of Americans polled believed Trump could be trusted on immigration. Twelve months on, and that figure has slipped eight percent to 39 percent.
Alarmingly for Trump, this is the issue he is polling best on, currently.
ICE and Border Patrol agents shooting dead two American citizens in Minnesota this year turned a large number of the President’s supporters against his tactics when it came to immigration.
How Americans describe Trump in new YouGov poll
The new YouGov poll also asked what words people would use to describe President Trump.
The top three words on the poll were ‘arrogant’, which 65 percent of those polled said applied ‘a lot’, then ‘opportunistic’ at 57 percent, and ‘reckless’ at 56 percent.
Elsewhere on the list, ‘dishonest’, ‘corrupt’, ‘hypocritical’, and ‘ineffective’ all featured, and it was not until ‘strong leader’ appeared in 12th place that a positive term was used to describe Trump.
Thirty-eight percent of those polled believed that was an accurate term used to describe the President.
Foreign policy
Another extremely hot topic, especially since the war in Iran erupted at the end of February, and, prior to that, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was captured during a raid and brought to New York.
Only 33 percent of those polled believe Trump is doing a good job with his foreign policy, his third-highest performing area.
Speaking to UNILAD, Spokesperson for the White House Davis Ingle said in a statement: “What matters most to the American people is having a Commander-in-Chief who takes decisive action to eliminate threats and keep them safe, which is exactly what President Trump is doing with the ongoing successful Operation Epic Fury.
“President Trump campaigned proudly on his promise to deny the Iranian regime the ability to develop a nuclear weapon, which is what this noble operation is seeking to accomplish.
“The President does not make these incredibly important national security decisions based on fluid opinion polls, but on the best interests of the American people.”
Trump and his administration will be hoping there is an upturn in opinions over the next seven months as the vital midterm elections approach in November. The midterms are the elections for the US Congress, which is made up of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Congress makes nationwide laws, with the House deciding which laws are voted on. The Senate can block or approve these laws, as well as confirm appointments made by the President. They can also conduct any investigations against the President.
Historically, midterms do not tend to fare well for sitting Presidents, as their parties tend to lose seats after two years in government.
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