Posted on 01/05/2024 9:34:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
In just a couple of days it will be three years since the January 6 United States Capitol attack.
Ahead of our 'Jan 6' debate on Saturday, it feels apt to take a step back to try and capture an overview of the state of trust in institutions in the United States.
As Statista's Anna Fleck detail below, based on data collected by Gallup in June 2023, of the institutions selected, only the military and small businesses saw a great deal or a fair amount of trust in them from a majority of U.S. respondents.
This is at odds with Congress, which saw only 8 percent of people say they had trust in the political institution.
The following chart shows data collected by Gallup in June 2023. Of the institutions included in the survey, only the military and small businesses saw a great deal or a fair amount of trust in them from a majority of U.S. respondents. Congress, on the other hand, was trusted by only 8 percent of Americans.
The police saw an all-time low in the level of trust in them in 2023, with just 43 percent of respondents professing a great deal/quite a lot of trust, as did public schools with 26 percent (on par with 2014), large tech companies, also with 26 percent (on par with 2022) and big business with 14 percent (on par with 2022).
In 2022, public confidence declined in 11 out of the 16 institutions tracked by Gallup, with trust in the Supreme Court falling by 11 percentage points to 25 percent, and in the presidency by 15 percentage points to 23 percent. These hardly improved in 2023, rising to just 27 percent and 26 percent, respectively.
However, these figures could well have changed by now as analysts at Gallup note: “the survey was conducted June 1-22, 2023, before the Supreme Court issued decisions affecting affirmative action in education, college loan forgiveness and LGBTQ+ Americans’ access to creative services.”"
You will find more infographics at Statista
Gallup has been asking this question on trust since 1973.
Over the past 50 years, there have been significant fluctuations in responses.
For instance, the police saw an all-time low level of trust in 2023, with just 43 percent of respondents saying they had a great deal/quite a lot of trust in them.
But three other institutions hit their lowest levels of trust last year too, including public schools with 26 percent (on par with 2014), large tech companies with 26 percent (on par with 2022) and big business with 14 percent (on par with 2022).
In 2022, public confidence declined in 11 out of the 16 institutions tracked by Gallup, with trust in the Supreme Court falling by 11 percentage points to 25 percent, and in the presidency by 15 percentage points to 23 percent. These hardly improved in 2023, rising to just 27 percent and 26 percent, respectively.
I wonder why they never include firefighters/rescue and non-police emergency responders on these surveys. I’m pretty sure they’d be up there at or near the top.
“Capitol attack”
I saw videos of some scuffles with police and a few smashed windows in the Capitol, but would hardly describe all of it as an attack.
One institution is missing. Farmers.
People obviously trust Supermarkets or they would get their food from somewhere else.
They were being nice to Congress to keep popular groups off the list above them such as car repo men, dance club bouncers and IRS agents who enter homes to take people to prison after failed appeals.
More admired than Congress.
Mostly.
The rest, it is essential to watch 'em like hawks.
There use to be something similar, but by professions.
College Professors, Doctors and Engineers use to rank fairly highly, with car salesmen and politicians fairly low.
It would be interesting to see how College Professors and/or Administrators are trusted now a days.
Maybe they could also measure federal, state and local government in general. The federal government is more than politicians. It”s a massive bureaucracy with millions of workers that has so much control over American life. Very few, if any, leave this world without having to deal with this leviathan
Included in small business, I suppose.
This is true, but local bureaucrats have far more power over constituents than do the worthless bureaucrats at the federal level. Just speak about a local building inspector the way we all talk about Eff-Joe Biden to see the difference ... YIKES!!
Have the people who broke the windows ever been identified?
Have the people who broke the windows ever been identified?
Even trust in the “Church” has gone way down, thanks to that homosexual communist heretic Pope.
I trust you, and you are no less than an institution!
I’m a Republican, but Nixon was not trustworthy. The man who supported Pakistani atrocities in Bangla Desh, took the US off the gold standard and gave us wage and price controls, gave us the infamous EPA, the disastrous opening to China, and bozos on the Supreme Court who gave us the Roe v Wade decision, was the epitomy of a RINO. Could you possibly be thinking of Marni Nixon the singer? Hollywood trusted her voice very much.
The Pope has been a total disaster, but the non Catholic denominations are filled with bizarre prosperity doctrine preachers, wacko televangelists, leftist ministers of every imaginable kind.
Folks here can say “that is not true Christianity” but most folks are not amateur theologians.
Nice of you to say so.
You are an institution!
I sometimes think I belong in an institution!
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