The study also found that Biden had the lowest approval rating of any of the eight most recent presidents.
According to a survey acquired by Fox News Digital, Americans are getting more anxious about various risks and challenges confronting the country, including the possibility of a thermonuclear war and increased friction among countries over access to energy resources.
In a recent survey, the Reagan National Defense Forum (RNDF) found that respondents were either very concerned or somewhat concerned about a wide range of threats that could lead to economic hardship or disparity for Americans, including thermonuclear war, terrorist attacks on the homeland, political violence, and the use of surveillance to suppress human rights.
According to the survey’s respondents, President Biden has the lowest approval rating of any of the eight most recent U.S. presidents. Only 43% of respondents gave Biden a favorable rating of either “very” or “somewhat,” declining 17 percentage points from the 60% who gave Obama a positive rating simultaneously.
As tensions rise between the United States and China, and other nations like Russia, are currently at war, Americans worry about nuclear war and terrorist strikes.
Sixty-nine percent of those surveyed expressed “severe” or “quite” high levels of fear about the possibility of a thermonuclear war occurring within the next five years. Compared to the same study conducted in November 2021, this figure represents an increase of eight percentage points. Moreover, 29% claimed to be “not very” or “not at all” worried about the danger.
Over the last year, worries regarding access to energy have arisen in the face of surging inflation and rising energy costs due to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the Biden administration’s reluctance to capitalize on domestic oil output.
Eighty-one percent of people polled expressed “severe” or “somewhat” fear about the prospect of countries fighting conflicts in the next decade over access to oil, coal, and other energy resources. Of those polled, 17% reported feeling “not very” or “not at all” worried about the prospect of war.
Seventy-six percent of those polled by the RNDF described themselves as “very” or “somewhat” worried about the possibility of terrorist strikes in the United States, down from 80% in the previous year’s study. Eighty-five percent of people surveyed by the RNDF in November 2018 were worried about the same thing.
There is also continuing anxiety about political violence in the United States. Eighty-five percent of those polled said they are either “very” or “somewhat” worried about the correlation between political polarization and violence in the United States. The RNDF conducted the same study in November of 2021 and found the same result.
Even in the United States, skepticism about spying is on the rise. Eighty percent of respondents, consistent with previous surveys conducted by the RNDF, expressed worry about the possibility of the government using surveillance technologies to repress human rights. Fifteen percent of those surveyed stated they are “not very” or “not at all” worried about the danger.
With a response rate of 2,538, the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2%, and it was conducted between November 9 and November 17.