Posted on 09/20/2013 10:19:18 AM PDT by sdnet
A Gallup poll released last week revealed good news: Americans’ confidence in the federal government’s ability to handle foreign and domestic problems has reached an all-time low. In both areas, a minority of those polled said that they had either a great deal or fair amount of confidence in Uncle Sam.
Yes, I said that’s good news.
Skepticism of government is as American as apple pie. The experiment that is the United States was borne out of a colonial revolution against an overbearing master. As the decades have passed, however, the federal government has steadily acquired powers that are vastly beyond what was intended by our founding Constitution. And like a frog in pot of water that is slowly brought a boil, Americans have become acclimated to a world in which the federal government intrudes into every nook and cranny of our lives.
Who in the world trusts the Feral Government after it has destroyed every area it has blundered into? Repeating a destructive behavior while expecting a different result is the classic definition of insanity.
But DEPENDENCE on the fed govt (entitlements) is at an all time high. That’s the factor that decides elections.
“. . ..the federal government has steadily acquired powers that are vastly beyond . . ..”
Acquired through executive usurpation and absence of congressional oversight, compounded by citizen apathy.
About 47% of the voting population--or maybe 51%.
But ask yourself this (I may start a separate Smoky Backroom thread about it sometime): When's the last time you heard someone say in conversation, "It's a free country." You used to hear that all the time when someone was about to do something unconventional, but not constrained by rules. Now, there's rules for everything.
Skepticism of government is the highest form of patriotism, to quote Hillary!
Except for polling of Under 30 millennials which reveals the following:
1) They trust government even less than we do.
2) Yet they’d like it to do even more.
WTH??????
It's probably the result of two distinct statistical-populations.
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