ON INDEPENDENCE DAY, A POOR REPORT CARD FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT:  As the nation celebrates its 247th birthday, the American people are signaling displeasure with their own government.  From Fox: 

A new Gallup poll released one day ahead of Independence Day shows confidence in the U.S. government to be the lowest across all countries in the G7.

According to the poll, just 31% of American adults "have confidence" in the U.S. government, down from 56%, the highest in the G7, in 2006. A whopping 69% of Americans said they did not have confidence in the government.

The U.S. was followed closely by the U.K., with just 33% of British adults having confidence in its government.

Among the other G7 countries, Germany ranked the highest with 61% of its citizens having confidence in its government, followed by Canada at 51%, France at 46%, Japan at 43%, and Italy at 41%.

According to Gallup, Americans' confidence in their government has declined sharply over the years, but saw a drop from 46% to 40% after President Biden took office in 2021, and again to 31% in 2022, on par with the lowest levels of confidence reached in 2013, 2016 and 2018.

The poll comes as Biden continues to be plagued by low approval ratings, hovering between 42% and 46% for the past year, according to a recent Fox News poll.

A separate Gallup poll released last week found that just 39% of U.S. adults expressed "extreme pride" in the country, just one percent higher than 2022's record-low number.

COMMENT:   There's an old political saying that democracies last 250 years.  We are three years away.  There are some political commentators who say that America is washed up, on its last legs.

I refuse to believe it.  Yes, there is dissatisfaction with the current government, and other polls show that fewer and fewer citizens are proud to be American.  These are serious warnings of decline, but we the people can fix this country.  There's a major election in a year.  That's part of the solution.  Vote in sane and mature leaders.  Vote them in from the White House to the court house. 

And flip local school boards from leftist to mainstream.  That's another part of the solution.

And turn off bad journalism, making clear that you will no longer accept the "news" programs that we're getting now.

Plenty we can do.

Happy fourth.

July 4,  2023