GALLUP POLITICS: Americans’ confidence in all three branches of the U.S. government has fallen, reaching record lows for the Supreme Court (30%) and Congress (7%), and a six-year low for the presidency (29%). The presidency had the largest drop of the three branches this year, down seven percentage points from its previous rating of 36%…
While Gallup recently reported a historically low rating of Congress, Americans have always had less confidence in Congress than in the other two branches of government. The Supreme Court and the presidency have alternated being the most trusted branch of government since 1991, the first year Gallup began asking regularly about all three branches.
But on a relative basis, Americans’ confidence in all three is eroding. Since June 2013, confidence has fallen seven points for the presidency, four points for the Supreme Court, and three points for Congress. Confidence in each of the three branches of government had already fallen from 2012 to 2013… (more)
EDITOR: Perhaps we are drawing nearer to the time that a Second Constitutional Convention will be convened and, among other changes, the country will adopt a Parlimentary form of government…as is common in all other advanced nations. Contrary to popular mythology, the USA can learn from others.
This is exactly what the ultra-conservative extremists want: for people to lose faith in the U.S. Government. This opens the door for the extremists to introduce their own brand of survival-of-the-fittest business-first theocracy.