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Yet another post, with link, with no vulgarity and personal attacks on any board member.
I dunno if it was Socrates, Plato, or Kool and the Gang who said "na na na na na na na na woo-hoo! Celebrate good times c'mon!!!".
This isn't as important as "Tucker!!!" but nevertheless:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/06/06/pu..."Only two-in-ten Americans say they trust the government in Washington to do what is right 'just about always' (2%) or 'most of the time' (19%). Trust in the government has declined somewhat since last year, when 24% said they could trust the government at least most of the time."
The precious Losing-Faith-in-Institutions was dedicated to retirement insecurity.
This one is dedicated to LOSS OF FAITH IN THE INSITUTION - OF GOVERNMENT.
76% of your citizens - don't trust it.
Keep up the good work......
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WiltonKnight: Only two-in-ten Americans say they trust the government in Washington to do what is right 'just about always' (2%) or 'most of the time' (19%). Trust in the government has declined somewhat since last year...
Umm, your article was published June 2, 2022 and only measures through May 2022.
And if you bothered to actually look closely, trust in government during most of the Trump years was below 20%. Biden's first year is office, trust in government was 21% while in Trump's first year in office it was 19%. During the Clinton years it climbed from 24% to 44%.
More interestingly, trust in government during the Nixon years fell from 62% to 36% and during the GW Bush years from 60% to 24%. The declines are not surprising given all that transpired during their administrations. Since Bush the lesser, trust in government has been relatively steady at the very low end of the scale.
Since Trump spent his entire four years in office claiming the government was corrupt (and proving it by corrupting parts of the government), well, here we are.
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So under Dems it's 22%.
Cool! The fact you still fixate on "Trump!" - warmly assures me that things will keep trending well.
Just wait....
The Left and Right of today - can you imagine this cabal dealing with social security, climate, and medicare?
Popcorn time....
Stop blaming precious administrations. When Bush or Trump were in office, every little thing we were told 'buck stops here'.
Dems are in power.
The only thing doing well is the Taliban's defense arsenal and sex lives.
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The Republicans are the party that says, "government can't be trusted!"
And then they get elected and prove it.
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2022.
Repubs not in power....
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Yup. The Republicans taught their cult to distrust government, and to expect little from it. Then Republican leadership went on to prove themselves right by screwing over the middle and lower classes, blaming others.
And... republican leadership did that screwing with a higher price tag than any previous admin.
The 'first family' blew more tax dollars on themselves than any first family.
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On the bright side, there was no wait at the pharmacy for a Moderna booster today ! Yay for teaching the knuckle draggers to distrust big pharma and shun the jab. Oldsters death rate spiking means less strain on the budget?
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When Bush or Trump were in office, every little thing we were told 'buck stops here'.
You, mouth-breather with a keyboard, are a liar.
That Rush Limbaugh crap is, well, flooding the zone.
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On the bright side, there was no wait at the pharmacy for a Moderna booster today ! Yay for teaching the knuckle draggers to distrust big pharma and shun the jab. Oldsters death rate spiking means less strain on the budget?
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When they aren't personally attacking online....
They are out in the wild, hunting fetuses or the old.
As far as their budget.....they are so many trillions in the old they'd have to reincarnate the oldsters and hope they are made out of pure gold and sell them on the open market to reduce the debt by just a bit.
And when the oldsters are gone....
The Tribal Young, make up more of the populations.
And your democracy continues to go.
:) Haha
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You, mouth-breather with a keyboard, are a liar.
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Personal Attacker, you said you ignored me. You lied.
And it is fact when Bush and Trump were in office, every little thing was blamed on them.
So enjoy it now.
There's so much to enjoy.
Your democracy, is in decline.
As usual, your personal attacks are answered with real world events.......
Which are deservedly terrible.
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The Republicans taught their cult to distrust government, and to expect little from it. Then Republican leadership went on to prove themselves right by screwing over the middle and lower classes, blaming others.
The plutocratic libertarians backing the republicans have implemented a winning strategy. They want less government, so transforming its preferred party into a cynical anti-government incompetence machine is a huge win. The repugs launch grenades from the sidelines when out of power, and dismantle institutions when in power, undermining faith in government at every turn. Good governance is not their goal.
The result? Plutocratic libertarians achieve their ends of less government, lower taxes, and more plutocracy. One day soon, however, their ability to protect their privileges will collapse with the state in an increasingly multipolar world. Will American plutocrats turn to China to defend their class privileges when the American state has been so successfully neutered?
