The End of Times for an Activist Government is just one election away. Will that election come in time to save America from itself ??

Editor's notes: The following PEW Research report records a 22 % approval rating for our Government the lowest rating in 50 years according to FoxNews. The two high points for trust were during the Reagan and G.W. Bush Administrations. Make no mistake, while Republicans are rolled into these numbers, the current angst is all about the Democrats. One of the first orders of business, after the people take back their government, is to curail the power of the Presidency, adding a large measure of Congressional supervision to the appointment and conduct of "czars," for starters. These czars have the legal protection of being "staff" while having the same degree of authority as any of the 15 Presidential Cabinet members. Under Obama, several of these cazrs function as dictators ---- unelected, without accountability and with no regard for the will of the people or the Constitution that is their history and intended governance. The Pew report, itself, is one of the more substantial surveys, written into a 140 page essay. --- jds

Pew Research Report text

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.

The public's hostility toward government seems likely to be an important election issue favoring the Republicans this fall. However, the Democrats can take some solace in the fact that neither party can be confident that they have the advantage among such a disillusioned electorate. Favorable ratings for both major parties, as well as for Congress, have reached record lows while opposition to congressional incumbents, already approaching an all-time high, continues to climb.

The Tea Party movement, which has a small but fervent anti-government constituency, could be a wild card in this election. On one hand, its sympathizers are highly energized and inclined to vote Republican this fall. On the other, many Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say the Tea Party represents their point of view better than does the GOP.

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These are the principal findings from a series of surveys that provide a detailed picture of the public's opinions about government. The main survey, conducted March 11-21 among 2,505 adults, was informed by surveys in 1997 and 1998 that explored many of the same questions and issues. While a majority also distrusted the federal government in those surveys, criticism of government had declined from earlier in the decade. And the public's desire for government services and activism was holding steady.

This is not the case today. Just 22% say they can trust the government in Washington almost always or most of the time, among the lowest measures in half a century. About the same percentage (19%) says they are "basically content" with the federal government, which is largely unchanged from 2006 and 2007, but lower than a decade ago. Read the full text here.
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