Gallup Explains Trump: "A Staggering 75% Of Americans Believe In Widespread Government Corruption"
Back in July, when the HuffPo was covering Donald Trump's campaign in its "Entertainment Section" (they are not laughing now), and when not a single political pundit thought Trump had any chance of winning the GOP primary (now most of them do), we said that "Donald Trump's Soaring Popularity "Is The Country's Collective Middle Finger To Washington."
Here is what we said:
Donald Trump’s ascendance as the early GOP front-runner is symbolic of a greater global trend: growing pushback against institutional political and economic power.
To many centrist politicians and mainstream political observers, Donald Trump is a boastful, insensitive egomaniac spouting populist rhetoric. Whether such a characterization is true is not worthy of debate, which may explain why the rantings of enraged career political pundits have no impact on Mr. Trump’s popularity among Republican voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, and across America. It seems no amount of ink or air time spent tarring and feathering Trump’s reputation sticks; in fact it seems to help Teflon Don in the polls, where he leads a crowded field of career politicians.
Donald Trump is a threat not only to the nattering nabobs in the press corps and the Republican Party. His day in the sun may be symbolic of a broader dynamic: the declining power held by historically powerful institutions. Ask yourself if Trump’s campaign is making a mockery of the political process or exposing the mockery that the political process has become. A not-insignificant percentage of Americans away from the coasts, are looking past his utter lack of decorum and political savvy to hitch their wagons to his outrage.
Six months later, virtually everyone recognizes and admits that this is the case: a vote for Trump is not "a vote for Trump", it is a vote against the broken, corrupt, crony-capitalist model.
Which explains why increasingly more are terrified he just may win.
But what explains America's revulsion with the existing system? The answer comes from the latest Gallup article: "Explaining Trump: Widespread Government Corruption" in which it finds that once the silent majority of the population can identify the object of their distrust and anger - in this case Congress and the political status quo - and once they can subsequently identify an object that represents its opposite, the latter object's distance to the Oval Office becomes considerably shorter.
From Gallup:
Explaining Trump: Widespread Government Corruption
It's been fashionable to make jokes about Congress' historically low approval ratings, unbelievable incompetence in the government and now, unfortunately, the perception of widespread government corruption. Pundits and talk-radio hosts have a field day with this. So do late-night comics.
It's not funny anymore.
A staggering 75% of the American public believe corruption is "widespread" in the U.S. government. Not incompetence, but corruption. This alarming figure has held steady since 2010, up from 66% in 2009.
This sense of corruption probably contributes to much of the extreme anxiety and unrest we see today - including protests, lower voter turnout and increased interest in guns.
Guns -- a symbol of freedom from government tyranny to many people -- are now a key voting issue. A quarter of U.S. voters say the presidential candidate they vote for must share their view on guns.
Protests are growing in cities and campuses all around the country. Students and citizens generally have lost faith in their national institutions -- the biggest and most powerful of which is, of course, the federal government.
The last presidential election had an estimated 5 million fewer voters than turned out in 2008, and the 2014 midterm elections saw the lowest turnout in 72 years (36.3%). At alarming levels, citizens -- when invited to participate directly in their own democracy -- are taking a pass and staying home. Or taking their frustrations to the streets.
The perception that there's widespread corruption in the national government could be a symptom of citizen disengagement and anger. Or it could be a cause -- we don't know. But it's very possible this is a big, dark cloud that hangs over this country's progress. And it might be fueling the rise of an unlikely, non-traditional leading Republican candidate for the presidency, Donald Trump.
To make matters worse, that dark cloud appears to be hanging over the growth of small business, which is where virtually all new GDP growth and good jobs originate. Simply put, startups and shootups (small businesses that grow larger) have been in a death spiral. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that the total number of business startups and business closures per year crossed for the first time in 2008.
And the economy isn't growing nearly fast enough -- it's been running at an average rate of 2% since the 2008 financial collapse and the Great Recession. Just to compare, following the recession of 1981-1982, GDP grew for six years at 4.5% -- one of our greatest economic eras in history.
Jobs haven't come back. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the percentage of the total adult population that has a full-time job has been hovering around 48% since 2010 -- the lowest full-time employment level since 1983. This is why the middle class has been dangerously shrinking.
You don't have to connect too many dots to conclude that if a government has an alarmingly high appearance of widespread corruption -- and that same government creates regulations that businesses cite as a leading barrier to growth -- then entrepreneurs might be reluctant to stick their necks out to start a business. Or to boom the businesses they already have.
Why would they start or boom a business if they think a corrupt government is creating rules and regulations that don't serve their interests -- but rather rules that serve the interests of corrupt officials, corrupt politicians, corrupt insiders and corrupt special interest groups?
Any wonder why so many Americans want a candidate who's outside of that system?
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I'm surprised it's only 75%.
The other 25% work for the government.
The other 25% believe in the Tooth Fairy...
Well, counting up the votes we're now at 125% of the electorate without having giving credible representation to the FSA, illegal aliens or Chicago natives....
"Hey I'm a voater, nobody said there'd be math involved!"
I suspect that of the 75%, the majority are democrats and think only the RNC politicans are corrupt and think people like Obama, Hitlary, etc are saints.
It time to Face the truth, the FSA has won the war. Best option it to get out of harms way, go Galt if you can, or start collecting what ever handouts you can from the gov't. By working hard, playing by the rules, you only fund the power that robs you of labor, liberty and freedom. Time to give the FSA all you can by avoiding feeding the system.
That's exactly the problem. The FSA is reliable and provides an automatic 14-25% of the votes. Middle class America has to turn out in increasingly greater numbers to overcome it. Romney got more of the White vote than Reagan, was it? And still lost.
"Why don't you just tell people the truth?"
"We do that too... and most people believe the truth... but one fourth of the population is retarded."
If this market goes down much farther he will win
I want it all to Tank for 2 reasons, first to take Killary out and second to have this shitshow collapse under Oblama so he can stick that in his fn legacy.
That's the only advantage to having Obama for 8 loooonnng years. Wall-to-wall ultra leftism and a giant helping of black resentment and pathology. A highly visible foretaste of the joys of diversity politics where whites are a minority in our own country.
Let me be very clear....Fuck ya!!
Demonrats all in on gun control. Suicide move.
Just like '94. That got them the Republcan Revolution and the most house seats lost in nearly 50 years.
And just look what a big improvement that was. Budget deficit, trade deficit, ... every measure of national well-being improved.
Right?
This is going to cost them the election and they are too fucking stupid to figure it out. I know people who are life-long democrats, but who still believe in the right to bear arms for self defense.
Bullshit there is a larger agenda here. Please tell me you don't actually think the president or congress is allowed to make decisions.
True. All their moves are homicide moves.
It sure as hell isn't about ethnicity.
I think crackers, spicks, chinks, rug pilots,Niggas <> and mostly the individuals that have seen their hard earned savings "cut and diced"ZIRP away over the last 8 years, are FED UP!!!!
Pardon the pun
Rug pilots...
I like it. Colorful and unique.
At least to me.
T'is a beautiful term. Worthy of use in the most delicate of intellectual Progressive company.
"What the fuck's wrong with rug pilots? Jesus, you get pissed when I call 'em Muzzies, FFS"
Knuks, I was digging back decades for that Standard Oil moniker.
Age before beauty ;-)
The other 25% are what? Brain dead?
That and they haven't received their Obama Care bill yet. Give it 30 days and they'll be shitting their pants. People who hold all of those great service industry jobs that don't have medical insurance don't have a clue yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyifuNC0MT8
Iv'e attempted to talk with some of the 25 percent. Each time I tried to talk some sense into them - they come back with stats like "the economy always does better under democrats".
All I am trying to do is to inform them how utterly corrupt DC is - and all I get back are all of the democrat talking points.
These people are programmed and it is hook/line/sinker. The shit will have to fly before ANY of that group start to wake up. Most of them will parrot their talking points until they head to the guillotine - republicans are like this too, but they don't do the talking point thing as much as the dems - at least not on me because they see me as one of them to an extant.
Same experience here.
I got this in response to a post from a MarketWatch article on the White House doubting that N. Korea detonated a bomb:
Me:
"ISIS is just a JV Team", "We have ISIS contained", "You can keep your Doctor", "We've drawn a Red Line" and "We'll have the most Transparent Administration Ever". That's just a few of the believable statements from the White House.
The response:
"Your quotes are a weak attempt at criticism of one of the greatest presidents of the last 100 years. Just be thankful things are so much better now than 7 years ago when we were in serious trouble."
Me:
That is truly hilarious! You just made my day! Wow, I can only add, that you forgot to add the 'Sarcasm' tag to your post. Thanks very much, for sharing your vivid hallucination with me! The greatest president in 100 years? That's really good slapstick humor! JFK, naaah,, Eisenhower, naah, not good enough.
Obama is better than any of those guys! I've never, ever seen anyone, wreck the country as bad as he has, with his lies, his ineptness, his awful stupidity, as President Obama. And to think, when I served in the US Marines, under Jimmy Carter, I thought he was the worst I saw, boy, was I wrong! Thanks again for the humor!
And then, when i ask people like you, "Please list the policy differences between Shrub and Obama", I get exactly the same answer as from Ds, great indignation and "How can you eve nask such a stupid question?", much hand-waving, and no facts at all, ever.
Obamacare? Explain how it is different than Mass's RomneyCare? Afghanistan, Iraq, Kurds, ...
Obama is a cia baby and part of that entire like of corruption, no different than Shrub and Clinton and Bush and probably Reagan. The gov is ever-more broken, and policies are ever-stupider and ever-more driven by Greater Israel interests and criminality.
Nobody has seen 9/11 FF. All other differences are minor.
You can fool all of the people some of the time, and 25% of the people all of the time.
It's a Silent coup for God's Sake! WHAT MORE PROOF do you need? Dual citizens in your government is an affront to every law in every land from the beginning of goddam time.
Mexican illegal immigrant is appointed to Calif seat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJKvVETw4vY
I am a legal resident in the USA and for fuck sake, I am watching you people fighting over who sits where on the life raft while the raft is being deflated!
I hope your kid doesn't intend to go to college at a UC Campus:
http://universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/freshman-admissions-summary
Set the above Charts for "Freshman Admits" and select "Residency" below.
You will see that in the last 8 Years, foreigners have gone from just 2% of the UC freshman admits to 15%!!!!!!!!!
As a lifetime taxpaying Californian I'M PISSED THAT MY TAX DOLLARS ARE BEING USED TO GIVE A COLLEGE EDUCATION TO FOREIGNERS!!!
pool not only do you pay for them to get an edumacation, obuma is adding new visa's by the 100,000, to give them jobs over americans at lower cost to business..
Nor do you want your kids indoctrinated by the CA system of Higher Advanced Sophistry and Bullshit.
UCLA should become UFLA. University of foreigners, latinos, and asians.
Not to back up the universities, but they started wholesale foriegner student recruitment drives when MBAs started running the schools. In order to find additional funding sources, they go first for out of state (if a state college) and then internationally. Those guys are pure profit.
As a lifetime taxpaying Californian, I'm sure you have a number of things to complain about, one of many being the UC system!
Seriously, god Effing damn. People say California is in horrible shape economically, and to be honest, everything I saw in California, from Norcal to Socal, made me think everything is WORSE than people tell me!
The amount of homeless, gangbangers, and poverty in California, is incredible.
I've been traveled extensively in my day all over the world, and I kid you not, California is the biggest shit hole I have ever visited. Only thing comparable are inner city ghettos. The difference with California is that the poverty seems to be spread over a much larger geographic area.
Relax, it's all part of the plan:
Dual Citizens......it can't be said enough, but you will NEVER hear the words mentioned in the MSM.....NEVER.
Think about that, and remember that for over 200 years this was not allowed. But in 1967 Jewish Justice Abe Fortiss pushed it through the Supreme Court, and now the entire government is infested with upper level managers with dual loyalties. Try telling your wife you want a dual marriage, and I'll bet she can explain to you why that is not a very good idea. If she can't, her lawyer will.
The disinformation agents of zion hide behind their downrates like good little rats.
Rats. Everyone is a fucking rat in this country.
Ready to squeal on their neighbors.
USA=home of snitch rats.
Drive-by down vote. I wish someone would try to debate this and tell us all why having dual citizens in high level positions is a good idea for any country.
Its antisemitic to question the integrity of duel citizens on zerohedge.
Also the third shift of hasbarabots are on tonight and upvoting each other and down voting their enemies.
I repeat, do not vote. Go to your town or city clerk's office with a statement that you revoke your voter registration. That registration form is proof that you are a citizen of the UNITED STATES which is the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CORPORATION. As a US Citizen you are the same as a citizen of the District of Columbia and a subject of the corporation that administers the territory under the 14th Amendment. In the eyes of the Administrative Legal system you do not have a right to the Constitution for the united States. You are a Statutory Fictional Person instead of a human being on the land with unalienable rights granted by the Creator.
This is the hidden part of the law that you have been deprived of knowing about. You think the law is too complicated to understand because that is what you have been brainwashed to believe. It is not so. The basics of the law of the American Constitution vs. the Commercial and administrative/admiralty law of the for profit entity referred to as the UNITED STATES are not difficult to grasp. The top of the Federal Gov. are laughing at your ignorance all the way to the Bank. You have been defrauded by your own government with the complicity of the Bar Members who profit mightily.
Just my opinion based upon 4 years of continuing research.
Good luck leaving the country without any papers.
I agree with you in theory.
However, you cannot get your orgiginal copy of your birth certificate.
Dunn & Broadstreet own it.
Good luck getting it back.
Your comment and apparent try hardedness is way too much for me.
I just don't vote. Fuck it. Fuck Trump, Fuck Hilary, Fuck Bernie Sanders. Fuck em. They're all a bunch of shit heads.
I'm not wasting my time with that shit. You shouldn't either.
Vote with your dollars..
I quit.
Not to many left to tax.. LOL how are the government workers going to pay themselves(can't tax your self enough to tax yourself)
they will have to raise taxes on the .0001% that's where all the money is anyway.
LOL
Look up U.C.C. 1-308 (Uniform Commercial Code)
the guy who coined the phrase "voting is a suggestion box for slaves" is still batting 1.000
Oh Holy Fuck!!!
"The perception that there's widespread corruption in the national government..."
That's where I stopped reading.
Your so right that's a puff piece Perception simple math no perception about it!
FACTS HERE
if it wasn't for the News People distorting and lying about the the facts everyone would be on same page..
25% don't think its crooked more government workers, police and paid for shills in the USA than I thought!
yeah, its a perception, not a reality. The globalists have done SOOO MUCH for Amerika..... who needs terrorists when we have globalists?