*** Poll: Majority Says America's Best Years Are Behind Us ***

"Ahead of the United States' 250th anniversary, 59% of Americans say the country's best years are behind us, while 40% say its best years are ahead. Americans are also much more pessimistic (44%) than optimistic (28%) when asked to think about what things will be like in the US 50 years from now. Another 27% are neither optimistic nor pessimistic, according to a December 2025 Pew Research Center survey."

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This poll was conducted before America's catastrophic war against Iran on behalf of Israel.

The next such poll will reflect more pessimism after the economic effects of the BBB and this idiotic war against Iran kicks in.

**** Axios: "Desperate" Farmers in Worst Crisis Since 1980s ****

"Farmers across the Midwest are entering planting season under mounting financial pressure, as America's illegal war against Iran on behalf of Israel drives up diesel and fertilizer prices-- deepening an agricultural downturn that some say is the worst since the crisis of the 1980s.

Rising fuel and fertilizer costs threaten to push more family farms out of business, drive up food prices and further strain rural economies already battered by trade disruptions, inflation and extreme weather.

Farmers are grappling with a confluence of forces, including skyrocketing energy prices triggered by Benjamin Netanyahu and Dummkopf Trumpf's Iran war, which led to the shuttering of Strait of Hormuz, a vital passageway for fossil fuels and spiking fertilizer prices and shortages after the Iranians blocked shipments through the strait."

Source: Axios, 16 May 2026