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Two-Thirds Of Americans Can't Be Trusted
Only one-third of Americans say their fellow countrymen can be trusted according to a recent AP-GfK poll, down from over half 40 years ago. Americans are suspicious of each other in everyday encounters and who can blame them with the government appearing to bless any and all surveillance and intervention in the interests of the status quo. "I'm leery of everybody," warns one respondent, and as AP reports, this is a potential problem for economic growth as "social trust" brings good things. A society where it's easier to compromise or make a deal; where people are willing to work with those who are different from them for the common good, appears to promote economic growth. Distrust, on the other hand, seems to encourage corruption and there's no easy fix.
You can take our word for it. Americans don't trust each other anymore.
We're not talking about the loss of faith in big institutions such as the government, the church or Wall Street, which fluctuates with events. For four decades, a gut-level ingredient of democracy - trust in the other fellow - has been quietly draining away.
These days, only one-third of Americans say most people can be trusted. Half felt that way in 1972, when the General Social Survey first asked the question.
Forty years later, a record high of nearly two-thirds say "you can't be too careful" in dealing with people.
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Does it matter that Americans are suspicious of one another? Yes, say worried political and social scientists.
What's known as "social trust" brings good things.
A society where it's easier to compromise or make a deal. Where people are willing to work with those who are different from them for the common good. Where trust appears to promote economic growth.
Distrust, on the other hand, seems to encourage corruption.
Even the rancor and gridlock in politics might stem from the effects of an increasingly distrustful citizenry
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"It's like the rules of the game," Clark said. "When trust is low, the way we react and behave with each other becomes less civil."
There's no easy fix.
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Trust has declined as the gap between the nation's rich and poor gapes ever wider, Uslaner says, and more and more Americans feel shut out. They've lost their sense of a shared fate. Tellingly, trust rises with wealth.
"People who believe the world is a good place and it's going to get better and you can help make it better, they will be trusting," Uslaner said. "If you believe it's dark and driven by outside forces you can't control, you will be a mistruster."
African-Americans consistently have expressed far less faith in "most people" than the white majority does. Racism, discrimination and a high rate of poverty destroy trust.
Nearly 8 in 10 African-Americans, in the 2012 survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago with principal funding from the National Science Foundation, felt that "you can't be too careful."
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Can anything bring trust back?
Uslaner and Clark don't see much hope anytime soon.
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2/3 are sick and the other 1/3 is wrong.
No easy fix, indeed. Modern life.
BITCOIN !! (sorry, way OT, but i just wanted to see how long it takes fonestar to reply to a bitcoin mention !) ... in 3...2...1...
he doesn't trust non-bitcoin related posts...
No surpirse. Trust starts at the top.
barry couldn't even spell the word 'integrity' , let alone practice it .
Can't trust anyone on the govt. dole. That's over 1/2 of America right there. Then throw in the "working" liberals.
Can we even trust that most Americans understand fractions enough to provide significant information?
When does the two-way range open?
I DON'T WANT TO BE THE LAST ONE TO FIND OUT.
Trust is lost once there are no longer real consequences for bad behavior (especially at the top). All you need to know is that when fruad is the status quo (as it is now), possession is the law.
Same as it ever was...
Fluff
There is no shame, violence is glorified, thievery is not considered wrong, and most people's word is just part of a continuum of lies.
Devo.
Lack of social trust is a characterisitic of multicultural, racially diverse communities.
Diversity and social trust
Harvard professor of political science Robert D. Putnam conducted a nearly decade long study how diversity affects social trust.[88] He surveyed 26,200 people in 40 American communities, finding that when the data were adjusted for class, income and other factors, the more racially diverse a community is, the greater the loss of trust. People in diverse communities "don’t trust the local mayor, they don’t trust the local paper, they don’t trust other people and they don’t trust institutions," writes Putnam.[89] In the presence of such ethnic diversity, Putnam maintains that
Ethologist Frank Salter writes:
Amen.
Most Whites are DUMBASSES ! forget the rest, they will backstab you as fast as anyone on Earth, spreading their ignorance around the globe until ALL Americans will have a target on our back.
What I posted does not argue in favor of one race over another, only that large groups of people are happier, better adjusted and more productive when they share the same racial background.
" Ethologist Frank Salter writes: .... Case studies of the United States.. ."
And what happens in other places ?
Aren't the US a little bit of an "exception" on that matter too ?
Multi-Culturalism is an affliction of the European nations as well: burning cars in France, gang rapes in Sweden, the public beheading in London. It's tempting to call it a self-inflicted wound, but people never really have a say in these immigration matters. These conditions are imposed by the elite, whether in D.C. or Brussels. Occasionally a politician admits the truth....
"The concept of multiculturalism is actually incompatible with a democratic society. ... If one asks, where in the world are multicultural societies functioning, he quickly comes to the conclusion, that multiculturalism can only exist peacefully within strong authoritarian states. In that respect it was a mistake that we, in the early 1960s, brought in guestworkers from alien cultures." - Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Hamburger Abendblatt, Nov. 26, 2004
There he goes raging against the machine all the while strengthening the European experiment with vastly different cultures. Let alone that open borders between so many countries increases the chance of introducing even more vastly different cultures. Say one thing but do another?
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." .....Ralph Waldo Emerson
You're not sorry tsx500, you're just attention starved.
You don't see me posting "GOLD IS AN ANCIENT RELIC FOR OLD PEOPLE" in every thread, now do you?
But I guess with 2/3rds of everyone not trusting the other, the core source of your sadism is really your fear of others.
See how that went back on topic? Its so easy.
John Corzine HERE(stole 1.6 billion!), bitchez. Free as a bird.
The wealthy elite, like me, want the vox populi fighting amongst themselves. Dine on the shit we feed you at the grocery store, fast food restaurants, teevee and radio, it is meant to make you sick and unhappy.
JC
You did this Corzine thing once before and it STILL CRACKS ME UP!!!
LOLOL! =D
I don't trust polls that tell me I can't be trusted.
I would never belong to a club that would have me as a member.
Groucho Marx
The vast majority of Americans are retards who live Obama, free shit, the NFL/NBA/NCAA, TV, Hollywood and other retardation.
The only thing that will save you is stacking baby. Momma laying down suppression fire with .223 or 22 LR and pappy plugging them zombies with .308. Jesus saves and so does your FAL, AR or AK.
Chuck Norris is my fav Hollywood propogandist!!
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When people spend their time in front of a TV rather than talking to their neighbors, it should surprise no one that everyone is afraid of one another.
-The- solution to deceipt: http://mylatestcreations.tumblr.com/image/68775794045
Unfaithful people are often the most jelous ones..
You acuse your neighbour of the actions you do yourself.
'Projection' is one theory in psychology that rings true.
Failure to bond with your primary care giver leads to a lack of trust as an adult.
Lack of trust in society escalates rapidly once mothers start dropping their kids off at daycare when they are babies.
If you can't trust your mother, why would you trust anybody else?
All carefully thought out by TPTB.
Destroy the family and create sheeple who trust the government instead of each other.
Stay home with your kids
jimmyT Have been saying that for forty years. When this country left the June Cleaver, mother in the home raising the children way of life, it all turned ugly. Just weeds where we used to have roses, nobody caring for the garden.
I have found that those who are the least trustworthy are often, if not usually, those who are also the least trustful of others, as one almost invariably judges the rest of humanity based on their own self-image, both conscious and subconcious.
I have found that people who you might not think you could trust, are often the most trustworthy, while the people "you should" be able to trust, are the biggest liars out there.
There are studies on cooperation, reciprocity and trust that confirm your gutfeeling.
He lies, cheats, steals, and laughs at the naivete of those who trust him. The good people learn to avoid him. The smart people learn to avoid him. And then he complains that you can't trust anyone and good people are stupid. He is too stupid to see that he has created his own hell on earth.
Paranoia... yeah... what a wonderfull world we live in.
Well, I trust everybody unless there's money involved. It's pretty easy actually. Don't give money to anybody, not even family or friends.
Don't do business with friends or family.
And don't tell jokes to you're best friends wife. Hands off.
And you'll be able to trust everybody and have nice social life.
If you can think for yourself you'll be fine.
The real problem is, most people don't think for themselves and blame oters when they made a bad mistake.
SD you forgot one more ... if you meet a man who meets all three of the following : can't hit more than 2 out of 20 free-throws ; doesn't know how many states in the USA ; names his dog after himself ..... don't trust him. and definitely DON'T elect him president.
I would say it's more like 1/3 who can't be trusted. From my watching of polls and other data it would seem there is a solid 1/3 of this country who are truly clueless fucktards. They are the dumb assholes who rally around their God Obama, giving verbal fellatio and believing every word that drips off his forked tongue. They will ride their goats straight into Hell with nary a clue.
It is a proven fact Bath House uses NLP to captivate his audiences. Watch the same speech with the sound on, then wait a few minutes and watch it with the audio off. Verrry interrrresting.....
Wait until things get really bad.
Well, at that point, (ugh) I'll add a picture of the Wookie.
We are in a recovery. Maria and Cramer said so . I'm goin' with that.
Wait until the 'recovery' gets really bad. ;)
LOL !!!
Exxxccceeeellllleeeennnntttt!
Turning in your neighbor will be the next growth industry. Everything is going along as planned. Hope and change muthafukkerz!
Already making a list. That one neighbor's dog shits in my yard just one more time...
I put up a window altar with Backdoor Barry's picture surrounded by low light LEDs and a small pair of plastic hands in a worshipful pose beneath the photo. I'm good.
Be flexible. I'd keep a picture of the Pope, Mitt and Osama in reserve.
Had the same deal with a photo of Tricky Dick back in the day...never got hassled by The Man.
Great. Add Che to the mix.
Nah, I'll put one up of Saint Hugo.
My neighbor just bought a new Mercedes. Looks like he just promoted himself to my "naughty" list. /sarc
Already thought of the 'envy factor' and so drive a fuel efficient Jetta (deep cover).
Back in the Soviet times, a brother turned his other brother in cause he wanted his room... People will betray other people over nothing.
I have a slightly different take. Government routinely gets us to sell out our neighbors with more rules, regs, restrictions and taxes. YOU are okay but that other guy is a problem. You need government to take control of them and their profession. Of course they are telling the other guy the same thing about you. In the end we will all happily sell each other out to our protector, the government.
I am tired of government as a concept and the myth of the necessity of rulers.
Think you saw something....say something
I do Not trust a single fucking dual citizen !!!
How do you feel about tri-nationals ?
Just wondering.
I would say it depends on the person's background and what country they have their other citizenship with.
Bobbyrib is someone who obviously does not understand the United States Dual Citizenship laws.
There is ONLY ONE Other Nation in the ENTIRE WORLD where the US Government allows US Citizens to have a citizenship with while being a Citizen of the United States..
Can you guess that Nation's name?
The 99% can trust the 1% to screw them everytime. You can trust your govt. to manipulate markets and spy on you without fail. And you can trust your leaders to make your savings worthless while enriching the banksters. You can trust that there will be a war when the economy deteriorates You can trust the Fed to print forever. You can trust that thngs will get much worse Who says trust is missing in American life?
Well African Americans" can just go fuck themselves. A bunch of AA "teenagers" going around just hitting unsuspecting people in gangs of seven or mor on one. And "THEY" have less trust". FUck them with a chainsaw!
Well even blacks don't trust blacks... so this article is total bullshit trying to pin all this non-trust on white folks.
That piece of shit O has set back race relations 100 years. He has everyone hating everyone and that is by design.
Correctamundo!!
Racism started in 2009!!
I don't trust the author's statistics.
Polls, TV, Hollywood, the rest of the media and the rating agencies all LIE. Polls are just another form of manipulation.
wow, 2/3s already work for the STASI?
Working for Corp Amerika feels like when some one is going to stab you. Fells just like Rome. Good times
How old are you? Or is it remembering the serial incarnations.
Trust doesn't come with a job title and can not be bestowed on anyone. Where I come from, trust and respect is earned. No other way. Their aren’t too many people out there trying to earn trust. The fraud permeates the Country from top to the very bottom. When those on top are not punished for their fraud, everyone else gets the message.
Bravo, well stated.
Glad I am not the only one with a pre-paid ticket too hell.
The two thirds is about right. That's about the proportion of people who would happily electrocute you if given orders to do so by someone in authority.
Why would anyone trust anyone?
Serious question. I see no reason to.
Fix this by communism! I mean, everybody was happy and friendly under communism right? Those who weren't were sent to the gulag.
The Snitch Program, wet dream the DHS is coming true.
Snitchez Bitchez!
Snitch this...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fba_1384397678
It is not just restricted to airports AFTER the security checkpoint...
They must be living where people don't leave things better than they found it. No hope without playing kindness games.
Yeah, Americans tend to live in the United States..
The corrupt run the place, so more, for them is better.
They need corrupt people in society or what they are up to wouldn't work.
Corruption is the one place where trickle down works really well.
Government practicing theft, which is endorsed by your neighbor, tends to reduce trust among the citizenry.
We’re getting closer to transformation programme intended to occur. The last effort to divide is at stake for them.. Many of us just sit back to watch, enjoy! Learn and educate history to others..
The question resurfaces, how will they pull it off? In order to kick off the new global governance, a deceptive event needs to be triggered.
IMHO, it will be a twofold shock value event.
The solution will be to hand over new powers to this well-known identity. The financial currency hand over is going to plan. Healthcare is limping along. Merging into a one religion order is the wild card.
Christ: Maitreya's appearance in Nairobi, Kenya, 1988
Krugman calls for space aliens to fix U S economy
World Goodwill
http://www.lucistrust.org/goodwill/
These are all the same people selling you down the road of a utopian society.
Allow me to support the facts on World Goodwill link above..
Remarks by the President at the Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York, New York |September 22, 2010
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/09/22/remarks-president-millennium-development-goals-summit-new-york-new-york
Lastly, let’s roll back the hands of time. Here’s the last President of Libya speaking at UN before he was taken out.
Gaddafi blasts big powers at UN
Muammar Gaddafi, in his first address to the United Nations in 1999 after 40 years, accused major powers of betraying the principles of the UN charter, punctuating his umbrage by tossing papers from the podium.
Then the half white negro hits the UN podium. Shortly after, the Banks exterminate Gaddafi. No formal investigation is necessary, he just wasn’t a Bank of International team player, If they cannot surpass the timeline goal. Taking out the JFK nigger will be used to separate the masses by installing new means to control the masses. The mere acts of desperation to retain control is even obvious to the shoe shine boy..
DHS/NSA.. Can you hear me now? Your fucking moles reside within your very own establishments. Just use our latest technology to observer heat patterns during debriefing. Begin cleaning the infiltrated house moles…. dickheads. BTW, remove all the directors, they’re the cesspool of your problem..
Breakdown the department security swiftly..
Big chunks of info to understand in above post. The light bulb will not flicker, rest assured.
I had the silly notion that trust had to be earned, not just randomly given.
When thieves are in charge, people who have never done any real work in their lives, is it any wonder?
When mere paper pushers mostly earn more than engineers, why would anyone trust the monetary system that has facilitated this?
Only 2/3's?
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
The rest of the world has known for long time
America exports corporate sociopathic leadership like Enron, Worldcom, AIG, Lehman, Madoff, JPM, Goldman, BoA and MF Global and we do not want to do business with you.
When I visit America I am treated like a pariah on arrival and feel like I am being shafted while I am there, so I don't go any more
Talk about putting the cart before the horse!
No honest individual will trust people [in general] until most people become... wait for it... trustworthy!
Duh.
And people show zero signs of becoming more trustworthy, must less generally trustworthy. So forget about it! Which means, the only sane people remaining are hermits and loners. I'm one of them in spades.
Yet I'd love to live in a world where trust was practical. But that will have to wait until we move into outer space, where being untrustworthy causes death.
One fundamental fact, though many folks would have to think about this for a while to recognize why this is inherently true: everyone who believes in "authority" of any kind is inherently not trustworthy.
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BTW, by what logic does the author convert "2/3 of americans don't trust americans" into "2/3 of americans cannot be trusted"? Those two statements are utterly non-commensurate. The real story is, "only 2/3 of americans realize that virtually nobody can be trusted any more", the other 1/3 being utterly incapable of processing or drawing conclusions from first-hand evidence.
"everyone who believes in "authority" of any kind is inherently not trustworthy."
I like that. That may be what's really going on here. Trust & belief in the current systems, especially the US & the US petro dollar, is not trustworthy.
When the sheeple see the eLeeches getting away with criminality, they also turn to crime but unfortunately the sheeple get treated with zero tolerance, whereas the eLeeches get zero punishment
That's because 2/3 are communists or their useful idiots.
Criminals of various stripes can be reasoned with, bargained with, and even reformed. Communist ideologues cannot.
I understand the theoretical definition of communism but in actuality communists all want to take what other people have.
You know the old sayings...........it starts at the top and monkey see monkey do.
That sounds almost like an AnAnonymousism --- you know, like "when the cat got your tongue is out of the bag, the shoe is on the other foot in mouth".
Make me laugh.
I don't trust AP...
Diogenes is still seeking.
Thats because most of the USA isnt even Americans anymore, just a bunch of people from all over the world not caring about the country and taking what they can. And the US gov are lying crooked bastards that should all be thrown in jail.
You beat me to it.
The US has been flooded with so much imported trash that US Citizens are a minority in their own home. It isn't that Americans don't trust Americans; it's that you can't trust the bilge that our lying criminal/ruling class has dumped on us, AT ALL.
I trust you, just leave me alone.
In God We Trust.
Who?
In God we trust,
everyone else pays cash!
I don't trust 2/3 of those around me...the other half just plain suck.
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