Polls Show More People Are Realizing Government Doesn't Care About Them. This Is Great News.
By Jeff Charles | 5:00 PM on October 19, 2024
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Americans have lost trust in the government and many of its institutions, and this is a good thing. It might seem counterintuitive at first glance. But the less people trust the government, the better it is for liberty.
Author Joel Day wrote an op-ed for The Hill in which he discussed the growing sense among Americans that the government does not care about them. This trend has grown among Republicans and Democrats alike, with most feeling as if they cannot trust the state to do what they want.
Day points out that the data shows that “likability and trust for people of other parties is at an all-time low” and that “People feel that the government doesn’t care about ‘people like me’ and feel powerless to change it.”
Consider that, back in 2016, a University of Maryland survey found that 65 percent of both Republicans and Democrats said, “The system is rigged against people like me,” echoing the populist rhetoric of both Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
This anti-system sentiment held in 2022, when a University of Chicago poll found that most Americans in both political parties agreed with that statement. Not [sic] do people view the system as rigged against them, but they also think it is immune from democratic means to change course.
This spring, the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy asked a nationally representative sample in the Notre Dame Health of Democracy Survey whether they believed “people like me have no influence on what the government does.”
Results showed that 56 percent of Democrats and 74 percent of Republicans agreed or strongly agreed.
A new CNN poll similarly found that 78 percent of Democrats, 83 percent of Independents and 86 percent of Republicans feel that the American political system needs a “complete overhaul” and “major reforms.” Across the political spectrum, the crisis in American democracy is not just that the electorate is polarized, but that the government is seen as uncaring and unresponsive.
This anti-system sentiment held in 2022, when a University of Chicago poll found that most Americans in both political parties agreed with that statement. Not [sic] do people view the system as rigged against them, but they also think it is immune from democratic means to change course.
This spring, the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy asked a nationally representative sample in the Notre Dame Health of Democracy Survey whether they believed “people like me have no influence on what the government does.”
Results showed that 56 percent of Democrats and 74 percent of Republicans agreed or strongly agreed.
A new CNN poll similarly found that 78 percent of Democrats, 83 percent of Independents and 86 percent of Republicans feel that the American political system needs a “complete overhaul” and “major reforms.” Across the political spectrum, the crisis in American democracy is not just that the electorate is polarized, but that the government is seen as uncaring and unresponsive.
This growing enmity toward the government has been channeled by politicians using populist messaging to appeal to disaffected voters. Indeed, the use of populism as a rhetorical tool has grown over the past decade on both sides, as people increasingly believe those running the government are not concerned about their problems. Day uses inflation as an example:
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