CONFIDENCE CRUMBLES-THE CENTER CRATERS-GOVERNMENT BY PARALYSIS
JUNE 25, 2016
I just encountered this statistic documenting the stunning and dangerous shift in opinion in the book "Fractured Republic" by Levin.
"When a team from the University of Michigan studying national elections asked Americans in 1964 how much of the time they thought the federal government could be trusted to do the right thing, 76 percent said either “just about always” or “most of the time.” (When Gallup asked exactly the same question in 2010, those two options garnered a combined 19 percent of the responses.)"
The utter and frustrating inability of Congress to come together to take rational and necessary steps on responsible gun regulations and immigration reform are just two of the recent issues that explain this.
We must do better, a lot better, and soon. This is government by paralysis and venom.
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Unfortunately, we are NOT doing better. The urgency to do so is increasing daily.
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