Americans want to take up arms against the government

Some opnion polls produce whacky results. It's inevitable if you ask the right or wrong questions. A new US poll has asked Americans whether they think it's time to take up arms against the government and about a third said YES. This is both whacky and seriously alarming at the same time. So many people in the US believe that the Washington establishment in general and the White House in particular are plotting against them to ruin their lives in some way or other. So, yes, they replied, it may be necessary to get out the guns from the cabinets and take over. If it wasn't for the January 6 attempted insurrection last year in the capital against the Capitol, you could dismiss this sort of nonsense as just another silly poll asking a silly question. But it was carried out by the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics, so a proper sensible source. Even with Joe Biden in the White House who I would have thought was pretty likeable to most people and certainly doesn't wave his arms around angrily like someone else we all know, there are obviously millions of Americans who remain convinced that THEY are against US and the only way to get rid of them is to seize the home-based weapons and drive the lot of them out of Washington. I assume the respondents to the poll are not all certified crazies, so the one-third who said yes to armed insurrection clearly have a different view of the importance of democracy than the average sensible citizen. God bless the United States of America.