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NYT: 81% in Poll Say Nation Is Headed on Wrong Track

...81 percent of respondents said they believed “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track,” up from 69 percent a year ago and 35 percent in early 2002.

The article doesn't get into what that elusive 19% think is going well in this country. Are they the ultra-fundamentalists that think Bush has done a lot towards making abortion illegal?

Addendum: There is quite a bit that can be said about this particular poll. I think that it is extremely relevant and important in the context of the Bush administration and in particular the harsh policies of the Bush administration.

Bush and his neocon cronies used 9-11 as a springboard into a new paradigm for the American people. This included regressive legislation like the Patriot Act. Legislation that stripped away the hard earned rights of the American people as defined and described in our Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Recall how Bush was soaring in the polls after 9-11 and how that popularity also fueled the new neocon inspired paradigm.

Several major bumps along the Bush way have jarred the imagination of the American people once again. They were in a stupor. The fear and anxiety stupor and paranoiac atmosphere prevalent after 9-11 was the basis for this stupor. The bumps seem to have jolted America (with a 28% exception), back into a semblance of questioning and reflection.

I think the post shock and awe insurgency was the start of it all. As bad as the insurgency is and has been, it has reawakened the American people into questioning the logic of the war itself. This was in my opinion the key card in the collapse of the Bush administration.

Cutting to the point, the neocon paradigm is shot to hell. It no longer carries the intensity and the patriotic necessity that it was hyped up to have. The majority now see it as the wrong direction.

The country may be far more resilient than some over zealous and ideologically insulated militants might imagine, if they had in fact possessed imagination.