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“The System is Broken”: Americans No Longer Believe In Its Institutions
SHTF Plan ^ | 6/17/2015 | Mac Slavo

Posted on 06/18/2015 7:00:33 AM PDT by HomerBohn

It’s not difficult to see that the foundation is crumbling…

A new Gallup poll has found that already low “confidence” in our system of government, our economy, the media, banking, big business, religious institutions and watchdogs is further eroding.

“Americans’ confidence in most major U.S. institutions remains below the historical average for each one,” a Gallup spokesman said in a news release.

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All in all, it’s a picture of a nation discouraged about its present and worried about its future, and highly doubtful that its institutions can pull America out of its trough.

There is plenty of good reason, with evidence uncovered daily, weekly and consistently throughout the years of the hypocrisy and failures of government, the failed promises of politicians, the lies and spin of the mainstream media and newspapers, the greed and exploitation of the financial sector and the “just us” mentality of above-the-law enforcers who are supposed to uphold justice.

Just check out how little faith remains in the structure of, well, just about any institution in America, by the numbers:

Only 8 percent have confidence in Congress, down by 16 points from a long-term average of 24 percent – the lowest of all institutions rated.

33 percent have confidence in the presidency, a drop from a historical average of 43 percent.

32 percent have confidence in the Supreme Court, down from 44.

28 percent have confidence in banks, down from 40 percent.

21 percent have confidence in big business, down from 24 percent.

24 percent have confidence in organized labor, down from 26.

24 percent have confidence in newspapers, down from 32 percent.

21 percent have confidence in television news, down from 30 percent.

52 percent of Americans […] are confident in the police [57 percent historically]

What else can be said, but that the system is broken?

Obviously it bears little resemblance to the one envisioned by the founding fathers and their emphasis on separation of powers and limited government.

None of the three branches of government are trusted by even close to a majority of the American populace… maybe that’s to be expected, with frequent media criticisms of political figures in a polarizing two party system.

But other pillars of society have lost their backing of the public, too – in astonishing numbers that show not only that the American dream is dead, but that private institutions are widely perceived as being just as corrupt as public ones (or worse).

To top it off – this perception is entirely deserved. The aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis consolidated the power and wealth of the big banks, and gave the Federal Reserve ultimate power over the economy, while average Americans suffered greatly.

Scandal after scandal revealed that corruption for what it is.

Media scandals – such as Brian Williams’ fabricated war zone stories and George Stephanopoulos’ attempt to conceal his conflicts of interest with the Clinton Foundation – have left a bad taste in the mouth of media consumers already facing fake news indigestion.

The factors are piling up beyond our capacity to excuse them away: fatigue from endless wars and threats of terrorism; cynically-false promises of hope and change; the repeated, brazen trampling of civil rights; a sharp decline of opportunity at the hands of economic recession; trade deals written in secret to enrich corporations; the rise of job-crushing technology and more have all sapped at the American spirit.

Whether most Americans follow these developments or not, they instinctually sense them. No one trustworthy is steering this ship – worse, no one may be at the wheel at all.

Who or what can turn things around?

That remains to be seen, but few will be willing to buy into the system if it remains on course.

The loss of confidence in the system ultimately relates to the loss of confidence in the freedom of the individual.

It is strong-willed and determined people who have always made this country, and any other, strong and vibrant.

The constant detriment of individual rights and the endless calls to transfer power to the collective – whether inside or outside of government – is the real source of the problem that this Gallup poll reflects.

Our best hope at a better world should start there. Is it still possible?


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To: HomerBohn

So? What difference does it make? Will the sheeple do anything about it? NO.

We let it happen. Yes but that alone did not do it. Greed and stupidity did the rest.

Weak minded greedy politicians have not done the work they have been elected to do.

At this point who did what doesn’t matter any more. The deed is done and the dream is over but the real suffering and death are just beginning.


21 posted on 06/18/2015 8:20:08 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: wastoute

Hope is not a method is it? We are not in a trough. We are in a deep dark canyon and there is no way out short of upheaval.

Building a wall and deportation of 30 or 40 million illegals would be a good starting place.

After that start whacking programs and change the tax code and trade deals that suck.

Ameirika is no longer for Americans. Trump is right. It is a chump nation and a dumping ground for all the trash of the world.


22 posted on 06/18/2015 8:28:29 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: HomerBohn
the failed promises of politicians

It's not about failed promises, it's about lies told as promises.

-PJ

23 posted on 06/18/2015 8:34:53 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Rapscallion

It is all the Cultural Marxists from the 1930s who infiltrated all institutions (including all churches) to destroy Virtue in the people and destroy Truth.

They targeted our children with John Dewey, a socialist who signed the Humanist Manifesto——designed curricula to destroy critical thinking (Classical Education/Bible/Truth/God) in children.

You destroy Virtue in children-—Virtue HAS to be habituated and practiced in childhood-—then you WILL collapse culture. The Prussian school system was designed to destroy Individualism and the ability to “think outside the box” for emotional “group think”-—which destroys the ability to be critical thinkers....they become dupes of the biggest Lies-—like men can be women.

As GK Chesterton stated in early 1900s—the only reason for mandatory “education” was to destroy Common Sense in the Common people.

Why-—for the elites to have “happy slaves”-—programmed dummies.

Get you kids OUT of public school-—BACK with the Natural Family learning REAL LIFE SKILLS from PARENTS or RELATIVES who care about them and ALLOW them FREEDOM to learn autonomy and master the REAL world from the adults-—not hang out wasting time with puerile peers learning dependency and instant gratification to destroy virtue, who are trapped away from moral educated adults who care about them.

We need Christian Ethics BACK-—the only REASONED Faith (Faith and Reason) which is based on Natural Law Theory (God’s Design of Nature where Modern Science originates)-—and with the only historical God——which is the only Rational faith in the history of man.

Our Justice System is based on Christian Ethics ONLY-—not Satan’s or Stalin’s Ethics, which destroys the Natural Family—reduces man to an artificial system of slavery, which denies babies their Natural parents for the NWO where biological connections are destroyed so the State can program and control the babies from infancy to the grave. Marxism is the total dehumanization of people. Christianity is the ONLY humanizing ideology which glorifies Individual freedom and Natural Duties (Reality).


24 posted on 06/18/2015 8:56:57 AM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: HomerBohn

The true success of the Government run public schools!
Emotional basket cases that can be swayed by emotion without logic.


25 posted on 06/18/2015 9:05:31 AM PDT by BillT (If you can not stand behind our military, you might as well stand in front of them!)
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To: HomerBohn

This isn’t nearly as discouraging to me as the fact that it’s so difficult to get along with people that I consider “like minded”. Even people that I should agree with, Freepers and such, it’s a serious struggle for me to relate to anyone these days.


26 posted on 06/18/2015 9:10:29 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: HomerBohn

Third party? I just want an actual second party.


27 posted on 06/18/2015 10:15:02 AM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: Sequoyah101

Yes, we did it by letting go of our political responsibilities.
20% voter turnouts, ignorance of what ours reps do, not holding reps accountable, not communicating our demands or even having demands, caring more for beer and sports than the hands in our wallets and on our children.


28 posted on 06/18/2015 10:18:09 AM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: polymuser

Holding accountable? Really? I wonder how many calls congress got in support of TPA that just passed?

Out of control... there never was any.


29 posted on 06/18/2015 10:26:38 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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