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It is really close the date for the next midterm elections in the United States (U.S.)which will be held on November 4 for the 435 posts at the House of Representatives, 33 of the 100 sits of the Senate, 38 posts of governors and the integration of the 46 from the 50 state legislatures.
This new electoral process is in the middle of a very peculiar situation; almost the 80 percent of the citizens of the most powerful western nation are dissatisfied with the political system they live in, and the 70 percent of them blame their governors of the economic difficulties of the country, according to a recent research carried out by The Wall Street Journal and NBC News television channel.
The 60 percent of the people interviewed declared as well, the nation is in a decline situation, while the 71 percent believe is in its wrong course.
But the most significant thing is that the majority blame their elected representatives for the economic difficulties the majority of the people suffered. Totally, the 64 percent of the citizens are nonconformist with the current situation, meanwhile only the 35 percent optimistically appreciates the future of the country.
Experts mentioned by The Wall Street Journal say this investigation stresses the difficulties President Barack Obama and his fellows from Congress faces today to have the support of the electorate.
The Economic growth in the United States nowadays, not only leads to greater inequality according to economist Robert Gordon.
In the last five years, the average increase of real incomes at home was 1,3 percent annually. However, for the 99 percent, that increase was just the 0,75 percent which means that 1 percent received the 52 percent of the incomes in this period. Due to this, the richest 400 Americans have more wealth than the poorest 150 million Americans together, a reality that made the Occupy Wall Street Movement angry.
The asphyxiating US debt does not allow the country advance. For seven years the American families had suffered for an unprecedented charge as consequence of the nation’s debts that are equivalent to the 133 percent of the available rent.
Public debt was maneuverable, but since then has started to exploit.
Another problem is still the irreconcilable vision of republicans and democrats on the model of society; a contradiction is making the country ungovernable.
From the White House, Obama pretend to promote “an expansive economical policy and with social assistance”; republicans, who control Congress, demand austerity and reduction of the deficit above all. Those differences are about to cause chaos in the last two years.
At the beginning of August thousands of people asked to fire the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Brennan, and other officials, because of the recent revealed espionage in Congress.
This illegal action is just the last evidence that Washington’s intelligence agencies are out of control, the demand says, which demonstrates the serious popular dissatisfaction with a system characterized by chaos and the lack of guarantees for the citizens.
The recent growing economic difficulties, contradictions in the political framework and the successive transgressions of privacy to institutions and people have caused the population of the richest and supposedly democratic country in the world to be one of the most unsatisfied and critical of its political representative decisions.
