Pinkerton: Why Only 16% of Americans Have Confidence in the Federal Government and What to Do About It

Breitbart ^ | 03/16/2024 | James P. Pinkerton

[ChicagoConservative27]

Just 16 percent of Americans have confidence in the federal government. No surprise.

Looking back at this polling series by the Pew Research Center, we see that public confidence in the federal government peaked at 77 percent back in 1964; as recently as 2001, confidence stood at 54 percent. No need to rehash all the reasons for the decline, but if more than four in five Americans mistrust the federal edifice, the phenomenon is bipartisan and far-reaching.

[ChicagoConservative27]

But God forbid they vote for mean tweets to change things

[anthropocene_x]

Why Only 16% of Americans Have Confidence in the Federal Government and What to Do About It

What to do about it? Start by giving a strong message to the corrupt deep state that we are on to them, instead of continuing to vote for the uniparty. Give the establishment a big middle finger in Nov. And that middle finger is Donald J Trump.

[BitWielder1]

Tell the Truth.
No Slants, No Omissions, Just the Facts and all the Facts.
And do NOT try to silence or censor the opposition, because then we know for sure you are hiding something!

[metmom]

I guess most people still have enough common sense to realize that you can’t trust someone who lies to you all the time.

[bankwalker]

dissolve it and give it all back to the states ...

[reasonisfaith]

Pinkerton’s biggest mistake here is to assume elected officials represent the will of the people.

They don’t, because elections are routinely stolen.

How in the world can you write an article like this without acknowledging election fraud? (If he did, I apologize for skimming.)

And by the way, the simple answer to building trust in government is just get them to tell the truth.

[AndyJackson]

Cut the budget 10% every year until people have confidence. By the end of 10 years people will have confidence or there will be no government. I’m good either way.

[DannyTN]

1. Throw Biden out. Elect Trump.
2. Electro shock the press every time they tell a lie.
3. Go after those abusing their office through lawfare.
4. Prosecute J6 committee members for propagating lies.
5. Give states the power to deport illegals.
6. Use Predators and a network of electronic cameras to quickly identify and intercept border intrusions.
7. Use satellite imagery to identify unusual traffic within 75 miles of the border, to identify any possible tunnels.
8. Develop federal standards of election controls, oversight and prosecution of election law breakers to restore confidence in federal elections.
9. Increase tariffs to bring more manufacturing jobs back to the US.

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... public confidence in the federal government peaked at 77 percent back in 1964 ...

Ten years later it was 40%. 15 years later it was under 30%. It's never going to be as high as it was in the early 60s. The surprise is that it's as high as 16% now. The other surprise is that people who believe that the government has been lying all through its history actually believe its current promises.

[wildcard_redneck]

With less than 1 in 5 Americans having confidence in government our garbage ruling class must learn to serve the citizens instead of oppressing them. If they do not they will be overthrown and suffer the consequences. No government can survive for long with that many citizens hating them. Revolutions are bloody and very hard on the ruling class.

[cgbg]

10. Stop pushing perversion.

11. Stop pushing anti-white hate.

[brownsfan]

Dem voters mistrust government but vote for more government.

[vpintheak]

1. Enforce the law. Equally.
2. Punish wrongdoers
3. Make any investments while an elected official, illegal.
4. Stay out of my business and stop making me pay for others business.

That’ll mostly do it.

[blackdog]

Hate production gives bureaucrats a sense of accomplishment. There is nothing else they can do with such ease and be so successful.

[Saintgermain]

Just talking aout it will not change anything unless something is actually being done and as divided the public is, very little will happen. So the slide downhill continues.

[Saintgermain]

If they do not they will be overthrown and suffer the consequences

The government knows only too well that nothing of that sort is going to happen, so they get by with whatever they can.

[wildcard_redneck]

"The government knows only too well that nothing of that sort is going to happen, so they get by with whatever they can."

There are revolutions happening in the world right now. America herself has already gone through two, why do you think they're never be a third?

Are you like Francis Fukuyama and believe that we're at the end of history? If the American government continues what it's doing there will be one, take it to the bank.

[Carl Vehse]

When traitorous Demonicrats and Deepstaters are tried, convicted, and hanged, then one may have some confidence that Justice is starting to be restored in the government.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The U.S. Government is a piggy bank for the far-left, capitalist communists infesting this country.

[conservativeimage]

Definition of federal: a sovereign central government.

This is exactly what we’re NOT suppose to have in America.