Distrust, Discontent, Anger and Partisan Rancor - The People and Their Government...

[bridgit]

By almost every conceivable measure Americans are less positive and more critical of government these days. A new Pew Research Center survey finds a perfect storm of conditions associated with distrust of government – a dismal economy, an unhappy public, bitter partisan-based backlash, and epic discontent with Congress and elected officials.

Rather than an activist government to deal with the nation’s top problems, the public now wants government reformed and growing numbers want its power curtailed. With the exception of greater regulation of major financial institutions, there is less of an appetite for government solutions to the nation’s problems – including more government control over the economy – than there was when Barack Obama first took office.

http://people-press.org/report/606/trust-in-government

[Rex]

1. Hey give people a break, we've been through 8 years of hell

and now we have to deal with idiots running around with guns. Even worse, their leaders are all violent pychopaths like Sarah Palin. They all want Obama's head on a platter and just barely keep from calling for it in public.

At least Obama is trying hard to fix some of the shit Bush/Dick fucked up so bad.

[amborin]

2. well, when pols make campaign promises, then cynically shaft voters, what do they expect?

take Obama....he campaigned on a robust public option....then wound up denying this....made deals with big pharma, etc......

no wonder people are fed up