When the National Election Study first asked the question in 1958, about 73% of Americans said they trusted the federal government to do what is right most or all of the time. Today, that number has collapsed to roughly 17%.
@Polfusilier@freepatriotThere was a study a while back, can't seem to find it, that showed an almost direct inverse correlation between the will of the people and outcomes in western 'democracies', aka, the more the people were behind something, the less likely it was to happen, the more opposed they were to it, the more likely...