<p>While the conventional wisdom is that New Year&#8217;s Eve and festivities surrounding the holiday inspire hope for the next 365 days, a new poll from Axios shows that the majority of Americans are fearful for the year ahead and that hopelessness is increasing.</p>
<p>Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/america-fears-rise-2022-poll-e6684bee-e6bf-41be-919a-caf4cf9fb951.html">reported</a> last week that a new poll reveals more than half of American adults are &#8220;fearful for what the year 2022 holds in store for both the U.S. (51%) and the world (54%).&#8221;</p>
<p>The poll was conducted in coordination with Momentive, a company focusing on market research trends. A researcher from Momentive speculated that more Americans now realize that President Biden and the federal government can&#8217;t &#8220;magically&#8221; fix the pandemic:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The end of last year was a particularly hopeful time,&#8221; partly because there was a change in the presidency but also because we&#8217;d just been through the first year of COVID and everyone thought things could only get better after 2020, said Laura Wronski, senior manager for research science at Momentive.</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;I think after this year we realized it&#8217;s not going to magically get better, that we&#8217;re going to have to live with COVID for a while.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Democrats, Republicans, and Independents all trended in the same direction, Axios reported:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>While Republicans were more pessimistic than Democrats and independents both years, all three groups turned more negative in this year&#8217;s survey, with 69% of Republicans, 45% of Democrats and 47% of independents saying they were more fearful than hopeful.</em></p>
<p><em>In addition, 51% said they were more fearful than hopeful about what&#8217;s in store for the U.S. in 2022, including 66% of Republicans, 41% of Democrats and 46% of independents.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>That poll is backed by other data which indicates that Americans are not too optimistic about the year ahead, particularly as it relates to the economy.</p>
<p>According to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/direction_of_country-902.html">Real Clear Politics</a> average, a whopping 62.4% of all Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction, though it should be noted that number has mostly been above 50% since 2009.</p>
<p>Likewise, Gallup polling <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/358367/economic-confidence-matches-early-pandemic-low.aspx">found</a> late last month that 29% of Americans — the highest in five years — now say that the economy is the most important issue facing the country. Gallup also found that other factors are contributing to malaise:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>As 2021 comes to a close, morale is low in the U.S. COVID-19 continues to rage on, perceptions of the U.S. economy have worsened, <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/358343/joe-biden-job-approval-rating-steady-december.aspx">Biden&#8217;s job approval rating is slumping</a>, and Americans&#8217; overall satisfaction with the direction of the country is low. Six months ago, the public was much more optimistic, but the delta and omicron variants of COVID-19, supply chain problems and rising inflation have dampened spirits. Still, jobless claims are down from their pandemic peak, and the stock market had been performing well until this week.</em></p></blockquote>
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