Posted on 02/01/2024 5:04:51 PM PST by george76
Americans have lost trust in some of the most important roles in a society, including those in the medical industry, teaching, and especially positions of institutional power.
A Gallup poll in Honesty and Ethics conducted at the end of 2023 asked 800 respondents to rate the ethical standards of and their overall trust in a series of professions.
"How you would rate the honesty and ethical standards of people in these different fields?" the survey asked. In terms of "very high" trust, all professions but one took a hit compared to previous years.
The poll measured the downward trends dating back to 2019, showing that medical doctors, pharmacists, bankers, and journalists have lost the most trust.
Medical doctors went from 65% in 2019 down to 56% in 2023, while pharmacists dropped from 64% to 55%.
Bankers' and journalists' ethics decreased in the public eye from 28% in 2019 to 19% in 2023, as well.
Chiropractors, clergy, and business executives took eight-point hits in the survey, tied for the second-highest decreases.
Dentists (-2), stockbrokers (-2), insurance people (-1), and car salespeople (-1) fared among the best on the survey over the same period of time.
However, dentists were the only profession of the top gainers that did not already have an abysmal rating for the "very high" trust category.
Dentists had 59%, while insurance salesman and stockbrokers were trusted at a rate of just 12%. Car salespeople were near the bottom at only 8%.
Completely bottoming out on the list in terms of high levels of trust were senators, at just 8%, and members of Congress, who were rated as having "very high" ethical standards by just 6% of respondents.
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Just 22% of Republicans rated college teachers highly, while nearly two-thirds of Democrats did at 62%. As well, Democrats rated journalists more favorably than Republicans by more than four times; 32% to 7%, respectively.
The numbers flipped, however, for police officers, where 55% of Republicans rated them highly, with 37% of Democrats agreeing.
For doctors, maybe because it is difficult to find a doctor who can speak English clearly, if at all...
I’m fine with the police here in my little island town. I know all (8) of them. Most are customers of my wife’s biz.
My doctor is another story...
DEI is a killer
To me what is striking is the loss of trust in 3 institutions.
1. The corporate media....this is a positive development. They’ve been Leftist hacks all my life. They just stopped pretending to have standards about 15 years ago and people finally figured that out about 10 years ago.
2. The FIB. Remember when most people thought they were clean cut, strait laced, honest and trustworthy? Those days are gone forever.
3. The military. This was the last institution people really trusted. No longer. Its so bad they’ve dramatically lowered their standards and STILL can’t hardly get any straight White Men to sign up anymore....the demographic group that had carried the load for 250 years won’t even agree to serve anymore.
When after fearmongering about Covid nonstop, they suddenly reversed course 180 degrees and said its OK to go out and riot because it serves the Leftist agenda, that is the moment when I lost any trust or confidence I ever had in every major medical organization.
I say this as one whose grandfather was a GP, whose dad was an Anesthesiologist, who has one big sis who is a Pediatrician and another who is a Psychiatrist.
Even *I* no longer trust any major medical organization.
Doctors and mechanics are best treated the same way -the way they used to be treated.
They come to your house and work at your discretion. If they can’t justify their work or do bad work -”GTF Out, you ain’t getting paid”.
When you take the patient in to their facility -they got you right where they want you and can do anything they want.
Trust is the coin of the realm.
And Deep State is flat busted.
With a big trash compactor?
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Exactly why they are just going to change society by changing demographic.
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