Posted on 04/30/2026 7:32:21 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Existential crises tend to arrive when the gap between how life feels and how we thought it would feel becomes too wide to ignore.
For a growing number of Americans, 2026 hasn’t just been hard. It’s been disorienting. A Talker Research survey of 2,000 U.S. adults found that one in three people (32%) say they’re currently experiencing an existential crisis, with younger adults far more likely to feel that way than older generations. Nearly four in ten (37%) say their entire lives feel out of their control...
A separate survey of 5,000 Americans, conducted by Talker Research for Current in December 2025, adds context to how raw the financial picture looks.
In that study, 87% of respondents said the country is in a crisis because of how unaffordable life has become. More than half (52%) said they struggle to pay their bills on time each month, and 50% said they’ve had difficulty affording groceries.
Across age groups, the through line is clear: a loss of agency. When people feel unable to influence the things that matter most, their career, their finances, the broader sense of where the country is headed, the psychological fallout is predictable. Anxiety, helplessness, and that disquieting sense of watching your own life happen to you rather than being authored by you.
Rather than staying stuck, a large majority (79%) said they’re planning some kind of mid-year reset, whether focused on mental health (33%), physical health (33%), or finances (25%).
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It’s not possible.
“nobody cares”
Author Steve Fink cares a lot. He has to write tripe like this to get paid.
Of course things would be worse if Kamala was president, but to pretend that the majority of Americans living in a Golden Age is delusional.
here is the national debt today. Almost 40 trillion&
The future is bright indeed
The finances of the USA are the worst in history except for all the other countries.
I don’t think ridesthemiles is a boomer, whatever that was supposed to mean about your own life, or the article, or how your life relates to the article.
“Having an existential crisis” is what I call an expected part of life. This ponderous state of mind is where most of our evaluation, comparison and learning comes from.
Guess what? Life is not meant to be one long, loud endless party.
the united States, the experiment , is over. The corpse is simply being picked clean. I wish I could give a rosier appraisal. I just happen to be realistic
I’ve had 3 existential crises this week, and there’s still the weekend left.
I’m doomed!
CC
I think a very large chunk of the USA can be saved if there is a division.
And it’s being encouraged by the commie freaks.
I thought I read an article yesterday about an abundance of black high school students paying upwards of $15,000 for their high school prom experience...and today, one third of the US population is groveling for scraps.
Caused entirely by our politicians and their favored parasites.
I’ve posted this before:
Mother Theresa: “Wisdom is acquired through suffering.”
I think division might’ve worked back in the day. But you got a place like California where 80% of the population is Aztec Indian and you just can’t succeed when you’ve got millions of Aztecs to take care of like children. It’s not much better than other states I’ve been around.
There was a Frenchman who studied the American experiment hundreds of years ago and is conclusion was- it will work out until people realize that they can vote themselves the treasury. That’s exactly what happened. I just don’t think there’s anything left to save. Sometimes things are just such a mess that you just have to move on and start over. Either that or war
But even with war, I don’t think it would really work. Look at the photographs of people during the depression. You’ll notice a commonality. That’s why we survive things like the depression in the world wars. But today the face of America has changed. America has changed. I don’t think there’s anything worth saving.
Agreed. The value of a dollar has nose-dived. For those at the very high end and very low end of the income spectrum on government support, this is of little consequence. Those of us in the middle pay the freight, and are hit the hardest. I’ve mentioned here before, but my monthly expenses have increased roughly $1,800 in the past four years, with zero changes in lifestyle. Insurance, food, utilities, gas, and everything else skyrocketed. That money used to be my ‘fun’ money for eating out, travel, gifts, etc. Don’t do much of that these days, and it’s hard not to be pissed about it. Worked my ass off all of my life, hoping to enjoy the fruits of my labor at some point, but that just isn’t in the cards any longer. Alot of folks are in the exact same boat.
Go ahead jump you freaking depressing loser.
That’s what they get for thinking. How many folks understand that until the last hundred or so years, the human condition was mostly impoverished. Now too many believe they are entitled to be successful and well off.
If you complain then well off Freepers call you a socialist crybaby.
I know. The truth hurts.
Bro, how do you “fix” a country that has 40 trillion in debt, with 5 billion added per day, several foreign wars, decades of very poor leadership, approximately 50 million illegals from deserts and jungles with extremely low avg IQ’s who have to be babysat, an enemy media, and on and on. America was great while it lasted. It was spectacular.
It’s simply time for something new. Not a continuation of what we have, dear god no— but something new
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