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Sun Aug 25, 2019, 03:39 PM Aug 2019

Most Americans Are Angry and Pessimistic [View all]

Most Americans Are Angry and Pessimistic

August 25, 2019 at 10:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 128 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/08/25/most-americans-are-angry-and-pessimistic/

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A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that — despite Americans’ overall satisfaction with the state of the U.S. economy and their own personal finances — a majority say they are angry at the nation’s political and financial establishment, anxious about its economic future, and pessimistic about the country they’re leaving for the next generation.

The poll finds that 70% of Americans say they feel angry “because our political system seems to only be working for the insiders with money and power, like those on Wall Street or in Washington.”

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