The Hill ran a completely unsurprising story yesterday headlined, āAmericans Continue To Have Little Faith In Major Institutions: Gallup.āAccording to the respected pollster, Americans faith in the major institutions continued dwindling this year. The good news is that the two top most LIKED institutions, in which respondents said they have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence, were small businesses (65%) and the military (60%).
It drops off pretty fast after that:
Nice job, Congress.
The Hill failed to mention Gallupās related poll on general confidence in the government, which is a pretty big story. Among the top Western G7 group of nations, the U.S. and Great Britain have slipped from enjoying the highest citizen confidence in 2006 to now being seen as worse than the fat kid with broken glasses. Nobody wants us on their team.
The U.S. is first worst, having transformed its 2006 win into a loss, and is now scraping the bottom for citizensā respect among the G7 group of nations:
Putting a brighter spin on it, you could say the U.S. is leading the world in citizensā disrespect. Hey, at least weāre winning at something.
As noted, this is an inversion, a complete reversal from 15 years ago:
The U.S. should start giving lessons on the best way for countries to alienate their own citizens. But why? Whatās happened?
If you argued that the U.S. has been under relentless cultural attack by crypto-marxists and other enemies since the early 2000ās, I would not disagree. But thatās been true since the 1950ās. Beyond the long, Gramscian āmarch on the institutionsā ā buh-bye, Boy Scouts! ā are more recent phenomena that inarguably poured gasoline on the Walmart portable grill of national self-destruction.
Low Quality Representatives. First, the quality and character of people weāve been sending to Congress has left very few people having any confidence in that branch of government:
Donāt make me list examples, it would take too long. But one telling example would rhyme with āFetterman.ā And Iām guessing the January 6th hearings didnāt help much to improve peopleās respect for Congress, not because of how unfair it all was, but because it spotlighted democrat low-lights like clinically insane Adam Schiff, āHumptyā Jerry Nadler, and human walrus Bennie Thompson.
Fundamental Unfairness. Itās hard to keep up confidence in the government when the justice system fails. Exhibit A is this man, the mild-mannered, grandmotherly-looking human wrecking ball of civilizational destruction, Merrick B. Garland:
Garland squats at the very crossroads of lost institutional respect, tossing around āunequal justice for allā like breath mints at a leather festival.
Institutional Dishonesty. No tally of lost institutional respect would be complete without this mendacious human cockroach:
Health agencies ā whose ONLY JOB is to protect us ā man the frontlines of hyper-politicized failure. This week, for example, the CDC published suggestions for transvestite men to best āchest feedā infants using gender-bending hormones and other chemicals. I am not making that up.
How could anyone lose confidence in guidance like that? But still ā¦ since men donāt have functional mammary glands, where does the āmilkā come from? I donāt think a silicone implant, no matter how carefully installed, is going to get the job done. Of course, Iām only a lawyer, not a trans doctor.
Science! Itās not misinformation since it comes from the government, dummy.
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