CHICAGO — U.S. politics continue to be a chaotic subject, and a new poll finds the majority of Americans are rapidly losing faith in their country’s leaders. From the ousting of the Speaker of the House to the mounting controversies engulfing the current president and his predecessor, over seven in 10 people say there’s no one they trust to save them from an end-of-the-world event. Such problems only push the so-called “Doomsday Clock” to tick closer to end times.
Established in 1947 by a group of atomic scientists, including the revered Albert Einstein, the Doomsday Clock serves as a barometer for humanity’s proximity to global annihilation. It is a metaphorical measure of humanity’s vulnerability to cataclysmic events, such as nuclear war, climate change, pandemics, or asteroid impacts. The closer the clock’s hands are to midnight, the closer we presumably are to a doomsday scenario.
According to a survey of 6,200 Americans conducted by BonusFinder.com, 71.2 percent of Americans say they have no faith in the U.S. government to save them or prevent a doomsday event. Even more unnerving, many respondents believe Doomsday could come within the next year.
Over half the poll (55.8%) think Doomsday will come in the form of a climate change-related catastrophe, while a third believe another virus will sweep the globe and a quarter of respondents fear the start of World War III. Another seven percent are betting on an alien invasion, while the same number believe 2024 will finally be the year zombies walk the Earth.
When it comes to the lack of faith in the U.S. government, researchers found that this growing distrust appears to be a bipartisan issue. Researchers found that a staggering 82 percent of respondents in the swing state of Arizona don’t trust the government to protect them from Doomsday. Moreover, 43 percent of these Americans have stored up supplies for a potential disaster.
Following Arizona, the top five states with the least amount of trust in the government include Kansas (78%), Alabama (78%), Pennsylvania (77%), and Oregon (76%).
As for what’s causing so many people to get ready for the potential end of the world, over 16 percent of respondents say social media and the content they consume on these platforms has convinced them to take action. One in 10 say watching the news led them to start doomsday prepping, while 7.7 percent cite their family and 4.6 percent credit watching certain movies.
Who is Doomsday prepping in America?
If you’re thinking of creating your own Doomsday checklist, researchers found that the most popular items people are stocking up on include water (41.2%), warm clothing (39.3%), and extra food (38.2%). Interestingly, one in five are making sure to have extra pet food ready and one in 10 think they’ll need some extra cash when the world ends.
To decipher which U.S. states are prepping for doomsday, surveyors examined the extent of Americans’ preparations and survival plans. A “resilient citizen,” as defined by The Prepared, can survive over 31 days without external aid or utilities. The study utilized this metric to assess the number of resilient citizens in each state.
Leading the pack, Nebraska emerged as the most prepared, with 51.35% of respondents indicating they’ve begun or are considering doomsday preparations. Additionally, 37.84% of Nebraskans are classified as resilient citizens, having stored enough provisions for at least a month.
Montana and New Mexico also rank highly on the list of states preparing for catastrophic events, with 50% and 47.50% of their residents, respectively, making or contemplating preparations. However, in both states, only 30% can boast the status of resilient citizens. On the flip side, Oklahoma appeared least prepared with a mere 28.38% of respondents indicating they’ve stored or intend to stockpile supplies. Idaho followed closely with only 29.41% contemplating preparations.
Interestingly, while Nebraska tops the preparedness chart, it also emerged as the state most confident in surviving a doomsday event. An impressive 64.86% of Nebraskans believe in their survival capabilities in such an event.
Diving deeper into demographics, the survey revealed that men are more likely to prep for doomsday than women, with 18.1% of male participants indicating preparedness compared to 8.8% of female participants. Financially, the majority of respondents invested between $1,000 to $4,999 in disaster preparations, with a few in states like Montana and New Mexico splurging up to $10,000. For those feeling the urgency to prepare, researchers emphasize the importance of storing water, food, shelter, medical supplies, and hygiene items.
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Survey methodology:
BonusFinder.com conducted a uStats.org survey of 6,200 Americans between the dates of Wednesday, May 3, 2023 and Monday, May 8, 2023.
*Please note the following states have been excluded due to less than 20 respondents:
- Vermont
- Wyoming
- Alaska
- North Dakota
- South Dakota
- Delaware
All the prepping in the world won’t help you once the tribulation starts. But if you make Jesus your Lord and savior for his work on the cross what he did for you, and repent of your sins you won’t have to go through any of that.
Only Donald Trump – who is Christ Reborn – can save us in these end times.
Tithe to him, vote for him, he is the return of God in the form of a Man.
HolyWar 2024
Prep for the end times.
You calling Trump Christ is a despicable insult to Christ. Trump’s despicable love affair with Kim jong-un allowed his nuclear program to go unchecked for 4 years…..
LOL!!!
The Orange Massiah!!
I Pray your post is sarcasm .
Impossible to tell the difference between sarcasm and Clown Car American reality isn’t it?
So Trump is the anti-christ?
Got it!
Why, Is it that you want Biden to finish destroying everything? Why did Joe wave 21 federal laws to commence building the border wall all of a sudden? He loves immigrants…..
FYI it’s unwise to parody God or use him to mock other people.
That’s the funniest bullshit I’ll read today. The scary part is that you probably believe it. Cult much?
Praise Ahura Mazda!
The government will do what it always does in a crisis. It will name a panel of experts, study the problem, put together some plans and hope it all goes away before retirement.
American government is incompetent because Americans have decided to elect incompetent governments.
You have only yourselves to blame.
The world will be better off without you.
When Biden and Harris is the best our elites can offer, you know we are doomed. Unlike them, Trump wasn’t chosen. He was the only one willing to stand-up to this stupidity.
Religious idiots, raised on fairytales and mythology, can’t navigate a technological world so they would rather it burn to the ground and go to their fairytale cloud place instead. Why don’t you all just jump off a cliff, you are so sure you are going to the happy place in the sky, WTF are you waiting around for?
Shut up dude…. I’m sorry, you probably identify as an ahossle,
your ignorance is astounding, yet comical too…..buffoon
Its worse than that.
Religionists are trained from youth to lie to themselves about all manner of things, like the “existence” of their inviable sky fairy.
Once they are comfortable with lying to themselves about one thing they are primed to lie to themselves about many, many other things.
Willfully ignorant MAGAts are thus born.
So you’re saying that “religionists” are similar to climate change zealots?
Correct ! Our Own Political Indifference put us where we are !
Not True . They will Take full advantage … ” Never let a crisis go to waste ”
THEY Believe Their ” Emergency ” suspends Our Rights and the Constitution .
“The constitution is just a piece of paper” – President George Bush Jr.
to bad these reports were from unnamed sources. there’s no evidence he used these words in public or private. more fake news…
Funny you forget to mention that Biden wrote the Patriot act…who was Vp when the NSA spying scandal was happening…
Not one mention of Biden’s corruption.
This regime provoking Putin. The
world alighting with BRICs. The threat
of Chinese world domination ? The
outsourcing of industry ? The wide
open border to subsume the electorate
and “fundamentally transform America”.
Climate change is a neurotic obsession
of the left. You’ve got your kids so
terrified they can’t sleep.
The ouster of Speaker was good for
Republicans as he was a RINO. You
lefties are shallow and myopic. Every
day, a new crisis. Godless, authority
worshipers.
You failed to mention Trump’s disgusting despicable love affair with Kim jong-un. For 4 years he allowed him to proceed with his nuclear program unchecked. Biden is no better but don’t give cover to Trump he’s just as bad
Only the God of the bible – Donald Trump – can save us from the evils of Baby Eating Liberalism.
We must take our country back and deport all Liberals from this universe.
Holy War 2024
Only the anointed one – Donald Trump who is Christ Reborn – Can save the universe from the Baby Eating, Commie, Liberals.
Obama was Christ to liberals….even though he killed US citizens….and you’re right liberals are baby killers at least you got that part correct….lol
Thanks for giving us the very description of the anti-christ.
Considering it’s the Republican Party that’s actively trying to destroy our republic that’s precious. Cult much little putin puppet?
Amen, I say to you!
Bafoon and his son are both criminals and should be locked up. You will never make me believe that Bafoon won that election over Trump.
You’re the man, not being sarcastic. One of a few that actually pay attention while everyone else goes to the beat of the drum the government plays. Stay strong brother
I wonder what the results would be of a poll that asks 6200 people “How likely is it that you are actually a mentally ill, couch hugging, bubble dwelling moron”? Now that would be interesting…
It is clear that around 15 percent of Americans are mentally ill, and 50 percent of course have subnormal intelligence. Both properties are now heavily concentrated in the Republican party.
The warnings being sounded for the last 60 years were ignored.
Now America reaps the whirlwind of it’s ignorance and sloth.
You guys put a dementia patient in the White House. Look in the mirror.
Your comments are not supported by the data.
From the leftist magazine, Evie:
https://www.eviemagazine.Com/post/young-liberal-women-statistically-unhappiest-most-mentally-ill-demographic-america
The data show that 56% of white, liberal women have been diagnosed with a mental illness, compared with 27% of white conservatives women. For men, 34% of liberal men and 16% of conservative men have been diagnosed with a mental illness.
You think its only 15%?!
I marvel at the stupidity I see online daily, from Twitter to Facebook the depth of proud ignorance and blind loyalty is staggering and, the dumber they are the louder and more self-assured they tend to be.
Twitter and Facebook thank you for your patronage.
Ignorant and mental illness are a liberal problem not a conservative one. there are more liberals self medicating and taking antidepressants by far… I feel genuine pity for people like you. It’s not your fault though you were probably raised in a single family home by a mommy who told you that you’re special….
Not a single prediction made in the last 60 years has come true for climate change. Only a fool would let someone be wrong for 60 years then suddenly believe them. And gee the Republican party is not the mentally ill ones- they are not the ones pretending they are something they are not – Trans, they are not bowing down and taking blame for something that was done 200+ years ago. Hate to break it to you the mentally ill ones are liberals.
“Both properties are now heavily concentrated in the Republican party”? I’m hoping are just a simpleton that has no clue. What’s scary is that you may be serious. Either way you need to check yourself into a clinic.
KIMEMOND = Low IQ Conservative.
It’s not a matter of IF but rather WHEN a nuclear device will be detonated in New York City. It doesn’t take a sophisticated delivery system to have such an event happen. Simply loading nuclear device onto a boat selling to New York harbor and boom New York City is no more. It’s only a matter of time till North Korea or Iran have nuclear devices and for that matter I doubt very much with the Russia would have any problem selling a device covertly to some terrorist organization. Trump with his despicable disgusting love affair with that tubby abhorant little dictator in North Korea allowed him to go unchecked. And Biden is no better in seeking to prevent these countries from gaining devices. 😕
They cannot evacuate people from a fire. Whatever makes anyone think they can save the world????
Tomorrow ‘Study Finds’ will publish an article that shows 81 million Americans voted for Biden because they trust big government.
It’s easy to spot the mentally ill ones. They wear maga hats.
In 2024 Republicans vote for Trump because they want a small government telling woman they can’t have abortions and forbidding Americans from using birth control.
Yes because Republicans believe that a person should take responsiblity for their life and actions unlike Liberals that love to blame others and commit murder.
Trump already said he’s not for a allnout ban and there should be common ground…nuts you think killing babies after birth is good but keep it up. You’re wiping out hour own people
The US government has systems in place to protect the US government and no one else. The people of the United States are nothing but an ATM. You have no say in the matter.
I really think we’ve never been closer to complete annihilation, thanks to reckless policy and the utter incompetence of our leadership.
We are nearing the breaking point that has destroyed every great civilization in history.
The “doomsday” is waiting for us. If you haven’t noticed yet A system of objects has been fluttering around for many years now. It can be observed on a weekly basis at close proximity to earth and regularly it hides in front of our view of the sun. It’s spread out enough to be transparent. The effects on earth have shown since it’s arrival especially in the clouds. Linked to human ancestor-age they travel intergalactic. I have heavily observed the system and become knowledgeable to it’s architectures. It is steered by Planet Nibiru and it seems inhabited. They seem to be waiting and in no hurry to leave. They have conquered time and have built quite a brilliant vessel. They would love to find us destroying ourselves so that the inevitable final blow, by their passing system, can ensure wiping us out. IMO.
Their track record with pandemics, where they used the crisis as an excuse to grab power and money, doesn’t give me confidence in their ability to handle any problem.
If the people in Nebraska only knew that state is going to be carpet bombed by nuclear weapons in a WW3 scenario due to our stockpiles there, they’d move long before prepping.
This is unbelievable to me. Are you telling me that people don’t trust a man to save them who can’t ride a bicycle or walk without falling down? Impossible.
Elections have consequences.I don’t fear dying in a nuclear war….I fear living through one.Having a president who is clearly not healthy mentally or physically isn’t a good sign.He can be convinced to launch first.
LMFAO….. I figured THAT out over FIFTY YEARS ago!
So, in the Immortal Words of Det. John Mclean…..WELCOME to the PARTY….PAL !
Excellent reference… More importantly, it is a true telling of the State of the Union…
And guess what. The God that so many worship will sent the Apocalypse, just like he has numerous times in the (not our) past.
71% of Americans have no faith in anything at all because they have no clue what’s going to happen very soon. It won’t be the end of the world except for them. The bible addresses the future very well but if 71% don’t read it with a view to understanding it, then they will just have to deal with having no faith. Personally, I don’t care that they have no faith.
ALL of our government is corrupt. From POTUS to the small town cops enforcing unjust laws on We The People. I pray people see the separation, Dems and Republicans, Blacks and Whites. We have a responsibility to our children and a constitutional right to get our government back under control. I love all of you so does God. Plz learn to read between the lines of lies they spin.
Praise Ahura Mazda.
Ha, Government is the cause of many of our crisis.
Which ones?
Enumerate them.
Covid, Aids, homelessness, wars, economy collapsing… Need more?
Buried the lede. 29% of those polled thinking the US government is going to save them for apocalypse is the scary stat.