New Poll Finds a Deep Distrust of Government

[groovedaddy]

With Election Day just over a year away, a deep sense of economic anxiety and doubt about the future hangs over the nation, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, with Americans’ distrust of government at its highest level ever.

The combustible climate helps explain the volatility of the presidential race and has provided an opening for protest movements like Occupy Wall Street, to highlight grievances about banks, income inequality and a sense that the poor and middle class have been disenfranchised.

Almost half of the public thinks the sentiment at the root of the Occupy movement generally reflects the views of most Americans.

With nearly all Americans remaining fearful that the economy is stagnating or deteriorating further, two-thirds of the public said that wealth should be distributed more evenly in the country. Seven in 10 Americans think the policies of Congressional Republicans favor the rich. Two-thirds object to tax cuts for corporations and a similar number prefer increasing income taxes on millionaires.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/us/politics/poll-finds-anxiety-on-the-economy-fuels-volatility-in-the-2012-race.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2

[indepat]

1. Deep distrust of government comes from the realization that government doesn't give a

diddle-dy damn about what 70% or 67% of Americans want, think, or need, that government is not of, by, and for the people but that government is of, by, and for large corporations and their wealthy benefactors. This precept is so simple, un-mistaken, and understandable that even a blind man can see, a deaf man can hear, and an imbecile can understand. :patriot:

[emilyg]

2. No kidding! What's there to trust?