After months of presidential elections, a new poll shows the worst political crisis in the US in decades.
After a year of continuous and powerful United States rule presidential election campaignAmericans want a break from politics, a new poll shows.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released on Thursday found that 65 percent of US adults said they felt the need to reduce their use of media in politics and government “due to overuse (and) fatigue”.
Disenchanted with politics, nearly seven in 10 Democratic Party voters — 72 percent — said they were withdrawing from politics. Ninety percent of Republicans said the same and 63 percent of independents.
“People are mentally exhausted,” Ziad Aunallah, 45, of San Diego, California, told the AP. “Everyone knows what's coming, and we're just taking a little break.”
The survey, which was conducted in early December, comes after several weeks Republican Donald Trump won the November 5 presidential election against his Democratic counterpart, Vice President Kamala Harris.
The press coverage focused on Trump and Harris as they spent months on the negotiating tour, traveling across the country to hold rallies and meet with voters.
Since the victory of Trump, the president-elect of the US – and his plans because as soon as he enters the White House next month – he will be controlling the news.
But as an AP-NORC survey found, U.S. television viewing shows that most Americans are not tuning in as 2024 rolls around.
After the election night through Dec. 13, MSNBC's prime-time viewers averaged 620,000 households, down 54 percent from the pre-election audience this year, the Nielsen company said. CNN's average of 405,000 viewers was down 45 percent during the same period.
There was a big difference, however, when looking at the numbers on Fox News Channelfavorite network of Trump supporters.
There, the postelection share of 2.68 million viewers is up 13 percent, Nielsen said.
Since the election, 72 percent of people who watch one of the three evening stations have been watching Fox News, compared to 53 percent before Election Day.
Political fatigue and the need to stop talking is nothing new in the US, of course polarization and parting words have proliferated in recent years.
In 2020, the Pew Research Center found that nearly two-thirds of Americans reported being “fed up” with the amount of news they get, nearly the same number of people who said they were the most fed up in 2018.
Pew on was reported in September last year that 65 percent of the people who were asked said that they always or often get tired of thinking about politics while 55 percent said that they always or often get angry.
The same survey found nearly eight in 10 Americans gave the wrong answer when asked to describe the country's political climate, with the majority choosing the word “divide” to describe the situation.
Arash Javanbakht, a professor of psychology at Wayne State University in the state of Michigan in the United States, explained that “politics of fear” is one of the three main reasons why many Americans are leaving politics.
“The COVID-19 pandemic, more than a decade of political turmoil, media distractions and wars around the world, and disillusionment with US politics and media have, I believe, left many people exhausted and learned helplessness.” he wrote in Discussion this month.