Posted on 09/16/2023 5:17:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
After decades of America’s political, cultural, and media elites lying to the American electorate, the public has become deeply cynical and distrustful of institutional authority. But while this may initially seem like a depressing development, the fact that voters now understand they are being deceived has eroded the effectiveness of the lies propagated by those in power – perhaps marking the first step toward a restoration of constitutional government where the people are truly in charge.
There is no clearer illustration of the declining trust in American institutions than the complete collapse of faith in the legacy press. The percentage of Americans who say they have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in the mass media according to Gallup has steadily declined from a high of 72 percent in 1976 to 34 percent in the most recent iteration of the poll last October.
But one development that does appear to be new is that Americans don’t just believe the news is untrustworthy or contains liberal or conservative bias – they believe media outlets are intentionally lying to them. According to a Gallup/Knight Foundation poll, just 25 percent of Americans agree with the statement, “national news outlets do not intend to mislead viewers.” 50 percent disagreed, saying they believe national news outlets do intend to mislead them.
Public trust in government is even lower. Just 20 percent of Americans say they trust the government all or most of the time. Among Democrats, that number is slightly higher at 29 percent, and it is much lower among Republicans, at just 9 percent.
On certain issues, many of which are of national importance, the public’s cynicism is even more pronounced.
One of the most obvious examples is Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. Despite an all-out effort by the White House and most of the mainstream media to portray the president as the epitome of good health, 63 percent of Americans don’t believe Biden is mentally or physically sharp enough to be president.
The public also hasn’t bought the White House’s defense of Hunter Biden or the media’s urgent attempts to convince people that the president’s son did nothing wrong. 61 percent of Americans don’t believe Democrats’ claims that there is “no evidence” Joe Biden was involved in Hunter’s influence peddling schemes. 77 percent of Americans say it’s “believable” that Hunter cheated on his taxes to hide his income (including 66 percent of Democrats) and 50 percent say Hunter is receiving favorable treatment because he is the president’s son.
Speaking of the president’s troubled son, 63 percent of Americans believe the infamous “laptop from hell” is important, with 44 percent saying it’s “very important,” despite rampant collusion by the media, Big Tech, and the Deep State to suppress and censor the story in 2020.
While the media and Democrat establishment’s efforts to cover for Joe and Hunter have caused the public to become more untrusting of the president, the crusade to paint former President Donald Trump as a criminal and enemy of the people seems to be having the exact opposite effect. It is truly remarkable that Trump can face four indictments, including 31 charges under the Espionage Act, and his poll numbers for both the GOP primary race and in a potential 2024 rematch with Biden only go up.
Most Americans also don’t buy the narrative that Trump somehow orchestrated the January 6 Capitol riot as a plot to overthrow the government. To the contrary, 61 percent of likely voters surveyed by Rasmussen believe undercover government agents intentionally provoked the riot – a direct rebuke of the Democrat-run January 6 committee’s assertions.
Even on ostensibly non-political issues, Americans are increasingly distrustful of the authorities.
For instance, a significant plurality of Americans (45 percent) believe that infamous child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was murdered, as opposed to only 16 percent who believe he died by suicide in his prison cell, as the official narrative states. The ongoing refusal of authorities to publish Epstein’s full client list has added more fuel to skeptics’ theories.
63 percent of Americans believe the government is withholding information on UFOs and potential contact with extraterrestrial life, compared to just 17 percent who don’t think that’s the case.
No one really believed the Biden administration, either, when they claimed the United States had nothing to do with the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline between Russia and Germany last year. A bombshell Substack report from Pulitzer-Prize winning journalism Seymour Hersh appeared to confirm those suspicions.
No one believed the media earlier this year when they claimed that a Hispanic man who committed a mass shooting at a Texas mall was a “white supremacist.”
No one believed the stated reason for withholding the manifesto of a transgender individual who tragically killed six people, including three children, inside a Nashville school in March. Though the police claimed “pending litigation” prevented them from disclosing the documents, skeptics pointed out that any time a supposedly right-wing mass shooter leaves a manifesto, it is plastered all over cable news networks within hours.
Heading into an election year, a public that simply doesn’t trust anything the media or their elected leaders say could have a profound and unpredictable effect on the shape of the race and its ultimate outcome. All of the theories that political analysts use to predict how elections will unfold are based on how news stories impact votes. But what happens when voters don’t trust the news?
For Trump, who has long made the political establishment and mainstream media two of his top targets, this could be an underappreciated advantage. Trump has been saying our elites have been lying to us for years, and now, it seems, more and more people are starting to see it too.
But, will it change how half of the country votes?
If it changes how 10% of the country votes, it will be enough.
Nobody... Nobody on either side believes the media. They just sit and wait for the media to say what they want to hear. To give them ammo for their own personal points of view. Period...
How can it when most of the country believes that the GOP is doubly challenged - they lack a brain and they lack a spine?
Trump: J6 Committee ‘Deleted and Destroyed’ Evidence, Members Guilty of ‘Criminal Contempt’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-j6-committee-deleted-and-destroyed-evidence-members-guilty-of-criminal-contempt/ar-AA1gkGFn
What if they gave an election and the results didn’t depend on the voters?
Been there, done that.
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#MarginofFraud
The Mother Of All Rhetorical Questions!
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Underlined by the spectacle of the pere et fils Biden affairs. Each time a certifiable Biden crime emerges, we see Joe Biden's fervent denials from every media source.....like clockwork.
And there's the multiple Clinton and Obama subterfuges designed to rig their hold on power, and super-glue their access to our tax dollars.
Their contempt for Americans is palpable. To this day, Obama really thinks Americans cant figure out how he got three multi-million mansions on a govt salary.
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Whatever glory America had was due to God‘s goodness to us. He’s shown to us, as to so many other nations, that no matter how good a system of government one comes up with, man at the helm will always bring it down to ruin. We are now left just chasing our tail.
God’s gift of life through Jesus Christ still stands and is THE answer for every person. Corporate salvation of our country may be impossible at this point. Who knows? We can still appeal to God for it, but his real earnest is to save individuals in this time of grace. Be reconciled to God🙏
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And if you are having trouble seeing it go to Rumble and watch Nick Alvear’s documentary titled The Greatest Show On Earth. Then you will understand everything that has happened since Trump came down the escalator in 2015.
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