A recent poll has sparked heated debate after revealing that 41% of young Americans believe the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was “acceptable.” The Emerson College survey underscores a generational and partisan divide in attitudes toward the killing, which has drawn attention to broader frustrations with the healthcare system.
Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was killed earlier this month in New York City by 26-year-old Luigi Mangioni. The exact motive for the crime remains unclear, but reports suggest Mangioni’s anger toward the American healthcare system and perceived failures of insurance companies to provide adequate care played a significant role.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch condemned the act, calling it a “senseless act of violence.” During a press conference, she stated, “There is no heroism in what Mangioni did. Any attempt to rationalize this is vile, reckless, and offensive to our deeply held principles of justice.”
Mangioni has since been charged with first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism and multiple other offenses.
The Emerson College poll asked voters whether they believed Mangioni’s actions were justified. While 68% of Americans overall deemed the act “unacceptable,” the results showed striking differences across age groups and political affiliations:
- 41% of voters aged 18-29 found the murder either “somewhat” or “completely acceptable,” while 40% disagreed, and 19% were unsure.
- Among Democrats, 22% viewed the act as acceptable, compared to 12% of Republicans and 16% of Independents.
- Men were slightly more likely than women to condone the actions, with 19% of men finding them acceptable compared to 14% of women.
The poll has ignited widespread debate about the ethics of the healthcare industry and the shifting moral attitudes of younger generations. Critics argue that the results highlight growing frustration with systemic issues, while others express alarm at what they see as a dangerous normalization of violence.
Prominent political figures have weighed in on the matter. Far-left Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) offered a controversial response during an interview with Joy Reid. While condemning violence, she appeared to rationalize the growing outrage among Americans:
“Violence is never the answer,” Warren said. “This guy gets a trial who’s allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands.”
Warren’s remarks were met with backlash, particularly from conservatives who accused her of downplaying the severity of the crime.
The murder has brought renewed focus to the ethical and financial challenges of the American healthcare system. Critics of insurance companies have long decried the industry for prioritizing profits over patients, citing cases where essential care is denied or delayed.
While this frustration is not new, experts suggest the poll results reflect growing disillusionment among younger voters, who often face high healthcare costs and inadequate coverage.
“This is about more than one tragic event,” said Dr. Sarah Klein, a healthcare policy analyst. “It’s a snapshot of how deep the mistrust and anger toward our healthcare system have become, especially among younger generations.”
Despite the frustrations many Americans feel about healthcare, law enforcement and public officials have been clear in their condemnation of Mangioni’s actions.
“This murder does not solve anything,” Commissioner Tisch said. “It only deepens the divides we face and distracts from meaningful discussions about fixing our healthcare system.”
Prominent figures from both sides of the political aisle have also called for calm, emphasizing that no amount of systemic frustration can justify violence.
Generational and Political Divide
The poll results reveal a striking generational divide that is not easily explained. Experts believe younger Americans may feel disconnected from traditional political solutions, leading to more radical attitudes.
“Millennials and Gen Z have grown up watching healthcare costs skyrocket while wages stagnate,” said sociologist Dr. Amanda Reed. “For many, the system seems rigged, and they’re increasingly disillusioned with the idea that reforms will happen through conventional means.”
Partisan differences also play a role, with Democrats slightly more likely than Republicans to condone Mangioni’s actions. Analysts attribute this to the Democratic base’s longstanding focus on healthcare reform, which may heighten anger when the system fails.
The poll has sparked important ethical questions about the role of systemic frustration in shaping public attitudes toward violence. While the murder of Brian Thompson has been universally condemned, the survey highlights the need for greater understanding of the underlying factors driving public discontent.
“Addressing this isn’t just about fixing healthcare,” said Dr. Klein. “It’s about restoring trust in institutions and ensuring people feel heard and valued.”
The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is a tragic and alarming incident that has prompted widespread condemnation. Yet, the poll results serve as a wake-up call about the growing discontent among younger Americans.
As the nation grapples with this shocking crime, leaders must not only condemn violence but also address the deeper systemic frustrations driving such radical attitudes. For the healthcare industry, this means taking a hard look at the policies and practices that have eroded public trust, particularly among the youngest members of society.
I don’t really think this poll data is all that shocking. Leftists have long been practicing cancel culture, and it has evolved very quickly. For DECADES we’ve been indoctrinated to be “politically correct” with our speech and opinion, or risk being socially shunned. Then, with the advent of widely used social media platforms where the risk to outwardly speaking truth was reduced, people learned they could speak openly or share a counter-opinion to the politically-correct leftists. Then some very smart Americans began holding conservative speech and debate on college campuses (at least at colleges that would allow a different opinion) to offer a conservative option to the politically correct leftist dogma. These platforms quickly led leftists to openly, loudly, obnoxiously and dangerously practice cancel culture. Screaming and protesting during debates became “normal”, for lack of a better description. Leftists then pressured social media platforms to “cancel” accounts of those not conforming to the political left, and they pressured them to censor content not deemed to be “politically correct”. We saw all of this play out with DJT and with anyone who valued his opinion and politics. Certainly we saw that when they couldn’t cancel DJT’s speech, leftists tried to murder him. Am not at all surprised they condone murder of other executives who don’t subscribe to their ideological stance or beliefs. Murder is nothing less than the most intense “cancel culture”. Isn’t this what communists have been doing for a century? Cancelling all who don’t tow the line? Open and very public murder of their political opposition is just another tool they wield regularly.
The underlying major point here is how a large segment of society has become and apparently is to be locked into a reprobate mind, with many of those in this group being pagan and quite immoral; just as prophesied regarding the End Time! That is mainly what I see and it’s not indicating any likely positive change in the short term or ever for far too many twisted souls that are becoming vessels for depravity and all manner of evil.
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 “and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them. 11 For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie, 12in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.”
Sadly Lawrence, it’s not shocking. It’s sad, but not shocking. Leftists have long been practicing cancel culture, and it has evolved into this. For DECADES we’ve been indoctrinated to be “politically correct” with our speech and opinion, or risk being socially shunned. Then, with the advent of widely used social media platforms where the risk to outwardly speaking truth was reduced, people learned they could speak openly or share a counter-opinion to the politically-correct leftists. About the same time, some very smart and brave Americans began holding conservative speech and debate on college campuses (at least those colleges which would ALLOW a different opinion) in order to offer a conservative option to the politically correct leftist dogma. These platforms inflamed leftists, and they began to openly, loudly, obnoxiously and dangerously practice cancel culture, showing up at debates and screaming and protesting. Leftists also began to pressure social media platforms to “cancel” accounts of those not conforming to the political left, and they pressured them to censor content not deemed to be “politically correct”. All one sided..Remember the Biden/Harris Minstry of Truth, actually titled the Disinformation Governance Board in 2022? This is what happened to DJT and to anyone who valued his opinion and politics. They were de-platformed and content was removed. When they couldn’t cancel DJT’s speech, leftists tried to murder him. Should we be surprised that leftists and anti-capitalists condone murder of other executives who don’t subscribe to their ideological stance or beliefs? Murder is the ultimate “cancel culture”. Isn’t this what communists have been doing for a century? Cancelling those who don’t tow the party line? Open and very public murder of their political opposition to send a message? Are they depraved? Of course, but this evil has been with us for a long time. We can only pray that light continues to shine upon that darkness and people learn to recognize the many forms the devil takes.
@ BC: Being shunned I can deal with. What I can’t deal with is being fired, assaulted, stalked & threatened.
If the DemoRats/Leftists/Trump-haters & the GBLTQ-WXYZ freaks can spew their “woke”, vitriolic, lies and nonsense, the rest of us can too.
It is an act of patriotism to take down a criminal/traitor in corporate America, the Deep State or Congress. That is why Trump was re-elected.
@ Lawrence M:
You hit the nail on the head.
Romans 1: 16-32 sums it all up.
Wonder how they would poll if someone started shooting young people because they are nonobjective in their thinking!
Bob, correct and lacking maturity or especially hard learned Wisdom.
Sure, let’s let the brats run the world that has to be better right! That Luigi is or has been an enabled spoiled ass and people want to fall for his rant and place him on a pedestal! They will ride to hell with him!
Romans 12:19 Amplified Bible “Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave the way open for God’s wrath [and His judicial righteousness]; for it is written [in Scripture], “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord.”
Poll results are worthless if they don’t show the number polled and the areas represented . 10% of 100 may have different results than 10% of 100,000. What was the credibility factor of the poll?
The government kills babies all day and all night! WHY would they think that was ok??
Young people see that Congress /DOJ/Feral Courts/FBI are complicit with/bribed by corrupt corporate America.
So they have a workable solution.
BC, good observations, yes “Cancel Culture” is a “prolific tool of the wicked” these days as its really as bad as what Nazism or Communism have employed as tactic to “force any opposition into submission, fear and ultimately defeat” if unabated; while it’s being applied through various sectors of society. Look how this has been done all the way up to the DOJ being weaponized to take down little old ladies or good family men who did a bit of “sidewalk counseling” for vulnerable often confused or scared young pregnant women in the vicinity of an apportion clinic. These pregnant women who often times are feeling like there is no alternative, but the sidewalk supporters of such women have resources and multiple avenues or options of support with solid well established guidance for such persons to consider, if they should decide they prefer to go on with the pregnancy and bring their child to full term birth; an innocent human life. These “Pro Birth Human Babies” ‘advocates’ are often charged as we know with violation of the “FACE Act” which is a far stretch of this activity being any such thing; as they do not block entrances, actually accost or block anyone in their offering of ‘help!’ Such advocates are faced with decades in prison while Leftist who take to the streets and rant about anything even raping, severely beating citizens to even burning city building and even attacking law enforcement officers, setting ablaze patrol cars; and yet they’re often given protection from any type of prosecution for their violent actions and the breaking of multiple laws! They are even praised as KamaChameleon was doing during the nationwide riots during the Summer of 2020, that she declared at the time “must continue!” Evil beyond any human Insanity that a freaking VP was saying that! These same sort of Radical Leftist Maniacs attack and even burn the many birthing centers around the nation where many services are provided to women during any stage of their pregnancy, but yet where is the DOJ and that “FACE Act mind-set” in those situations where nothing of any consequence is done for all these Crimes!
Yes you are correct about the “indoctrination that’s been unfolding for many years” and especially “in earnest since when Obama the traitor conspirator ignited a flurry of divisiveness and hate in America” to “Fundamentally Change America;” that SOB hates this Nation and “We the People” because he serves Satan! So what I’m driving at is that genuine Constitutional Justice for all is not prevailing as it should because, “that radical movement has in fact been conducting a soft coup d’état” to do more than cancel but to instead push their agenda all the way to “total change of the American Society” or in the least “create chaos and rule by “Law of the Jungle” with “morality itself being cancelled!” Look at the reports that are verifiable of late, of how a majority of young citizens in their teens and 20’s as a whole are now saying that “the murder of the UHC CEO Brian Thompson is fine and not wrong in any way!” China under Mao had what was called their Culture Wars and what that in essence means is a violent takeover of the society was conducted from within to bring Chinese society under “totalitarian control” which they now have!
Biden has been in the back pocket of the CCP for decades and he with all of this has been allowed here because “the domestic corruption is out of control” and we are in a “Culture War” that can end one of two ways! Either these “radicals are all stopped and the whole Agenda is crushed” or “the conflict will continue until ‘all hell breaks loose’ and our society falls apart and is subdued by anarchy!” The international brutal “Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua has expanded its territory to at least 16 US states — an area that includes half of America’s population” (NYPost) and where does anyone with a clue or half a brain think this is all going! All the massive influx of Illegal Aliens by the Tens of Millions allowed by the Biden Administration was the plan; in concert with the “Globalist Agenda of Global Totalitarian Control!”
Very much what we see is not unlike the “Fall of the Roman Empire” and other collapsed past nations or empires! “Morality and decency have dropped into the toilet” in many regards and these will only be a horrific end to all of this if not “totally dealt with ASAP!” Time already ran out, but, we might be able to “buy some more time” if enough “positive opposition is mobilized to take down all of the culprits within,” meaning those in power in our government to neighborhood mobs and gangs! As you stated correctly; “These platforms inflamed leftists, and they began to openly, loudly, obnoxiously and dangerously practice cancel culture, showing up at debates and screaming and protesting.” And yes this is the case with, “everything coming to a head sooner rather than later!” We are in a state of Civil War already, and it can only get exponentially worse as the bottom falls out of our US Economy which is all part of the Globalist Agenda!
Here you put forth the bottom-line to all of this and it has to happen or we are looking head-on at total destruction!
“Pray that light continues to shine upon that darkness and people learn to recognize the many forms the devil takes.”
God bless and save us from ourselves as we are in the throes of destruction!
Bob; you are absolutely correct and I’m appalled to see some comment here with their solution being more out of control Violence and Murder! In essence what they are saying is toss gasoline on an already out of control blazing INFERNO! The result of which will be that the American Populace plays right into the hands of the “Globalist Puppeteers” who are absolutely “serving Satan” and seeking to bring on more than anarchy but “utter destruction to enslavement of humanity!” They are missing the boat by miles here and “not turning to the only one who can save us all or those that want to be saved” and that is to “turn away from all sin and put their hope, faith and trust in the Lord God Almighty in Jesus’ name,” not men or a failed system that is “reeking with corruption throughout!” We’ve all allowed this to get to this “tipping point,” now many say oh shit let’s just kill some big shots and that will put out the fire; what a “freaking joke” that people are this stupid, even adults on here; saying “the young punks know what is best!!!” They’re all “heathens listening to other stupider heathens!”
They fail to see right now that they are behaving just like those ancient peoples of the “Roman Empire or the Mayan pagan empires,” all of which fell to “sin and evil amongst men!”
“STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES!” Let’s just have a “Global 2020 Summer of Love” so they think; which can end all this madness, hate, murder and destruction! Ya Really think, nah “not too much,” do ya!
Those that want to awaken to “God’s Truth” which is “the beginning and end all” can do that now, those that don’t want to just carry on your glide-slope is intact and you will reach your destination for sure, but, “you won’t be able to change it when you arrive, which you will have eternity to fret and piss and moan about in agony!
Romans 1:16-32 NIV 16 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,[a] just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”[b] God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity 18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.”
Dear God by your mercy allow multitudes to be enlightened and turn to the only source of all truth, light and mercy; who are caught up in this world of Pandemonium (crooked ways of the world) before it is too late for them!
Amen.
This just came to my attention and further illustrates how the people saying that this murder was fine and are advocating for the youth like Luigi or others to clean up society are fools and need to yank their heads out of their posterior before they succumb due to the toxins they are filling up with, from I say getting lost in Cyber Land!
“A harrowing school shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin has unearthed disturbing links between the 15-year-old shooter, Natalie Rupnow, and online satanic networks known for grooming teenagers. The tragedy, which unfolded on Monday morning, left a student and teacher dead, six others injured, and the shooter taking her own life.”
“Emerging evidence suggests that Rupnow was influenced by accelerationist ideologies propagated in dark corners of the internet. These groups, often cloaked in satanic symbolism, have been linked to grooming vulnerable youths into acts of violence, self-harm, and other forms of chaos as part of a sinister agenda to destabilize society.” ://news.spreely.com/school-shooters-ties-to-online-satanic-groups-spark-outrage/
This is exactly what I’ve been saying about Satan playing his best last hand to throw a huge wrench in the humanity machine and DESTROY SOULS by pulling them in his hellish direction away from God Almighty!
Pray.
and “these folks” are the tolerant, inclusive, equitable in Amerika? NO, just the opposite. They love death & debt, rape & murder, mob rule, just like the NAZIs 80 years ago. WE are NAZI Amerika today. Legally killing the undesirable in a sick society. Don’t try your socialist crap in a RED state. we don play dat
Timothy; perfectly stated and straight to the hardcore Truth that far too many people in this society obviously won’t admit and face up to or horribly don’t even recognize while in their state of “delusional madness” (evil) and Nazism fits many of them to a “T” while the youth’s sense of entitlement is overwhelming and toxic!
Let’s recall how that twisted, sinister and demonically influenced Obama ranted just as Hillary did also about inclusiveness and tolerance; when as you say, it’s the one’s blasting about it who in truth are the precise opposite and wicked to their cores!
This headline confirms the Mental destruction that is and has been done by the Democrat schools.
Babsan; Amerika indoctrination camps for Satan!