81% of Americans Think Government is Corrupt
81% of Americans think the government is corrupt.
The other 19% probably work for the government.
So says a new survey from prominent pollster Yougov, which asked 1100 Americans if corruption is a problem.
Who’s Most Corrupt?
You probably won't be surprised that Member of Congress scored the worst, with 90% of Americans saying they're corrupt while just 2% of Americans think Congressthings are clean.
For perspective, 21% of Americans believe in Big Foot. 16% think the Earth is Flat. 7% think chocolate comes from brown cows.
And 2% think Congress is clean.
CEO's didn't score much better -- 84% of Americans think they're corrupt. Which makes sense since they're the ones who bribe Congress.
Journalist scored 79% corrupt. University presidents and public school officials were 75% corrupt.
Even doctors took a hit after their Covid catastrophe, with 73% of Americans saying doctors are corrupt and just one in 5 saying doctors are honorable people.
Interestingly, the results did not change much by political party: Democrats are slighly more skeptical of Congress and CEO's.
While Republicans are more skeptical of journalist and public schools.
But across the board Americans are convinced we are ruled by criminals and thieves.
DOGE Reveals the Corruption
It's a pretty shabby showing for our self-styled elite.
And thanks to DOGE we're finding the reason: an establishment that indeed lives off thieving hundreds of billions of dollars to impose their authoritarian technocratic utopia on the country.
While divvying up taxpayers like pirates booty.
This all gives context to Donald Trump's efforts to bring down the columns of the temple. To crash the system in a hard reboot that removes this criminal elite in favor of the American people once again seizing our destiny.
Of course, that's up against the thieving -- and very well funded -- criminals themselves.
Who use everything from public schools and captured universities to media, Hollywood, and the lobbyist-fueled lawfare industrial complex to gaslight voters, dissipating their anger into whatcha gonna do resignation.
Corruption Fuels Populist Anger
I suspect these numbers would be broadly similar across the world -- in Europe or Canada, certainly in Latin America, even worse in places like Japan or Korea, where public support of governments regularly scores in the 20's.
Several years ago there was a fascinating study by researchers at Princeton that found popularity of a policy has essentially zero correlation to whether it becomes law.
In other words, democracy is not working -- our laws are captured by special interests.
This is partly why I'm optimistic about populism -- the same corrupt machine that tries to stamp us out is the very reason we are winning.
What’s Next
Last week I mentioned how Congress is trying to re-spend the DOGE savings. To the point DOGE may not succeed in cutting anything -- it might just repurpose money from transgender operas to border walls.
But even if that happens, the most long-lasting legacy of DOGE is the industrial scale corruption it's exposed in America -- and around the world.
When just 2% of voters think the system is clean we've got a systems-level failure. DOGE gave us a path to fix it that is gradually breaking through the media shield.
On the other side we get a democracy that voters can actually believe in again.
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This rampant corruption has doomed every civilization in human history.
Thus it will doom our own civilization with equal enthusiasm.
The inexorable cycle of history requires this system be burned to ashes and a new system replace it.
Question is, what sort of system will people demand?
I would suggest the empirical model of large scale government with all its enjoyable features of tax slavery, graft and kleptocratic self dealing enabled by the tax flow from a large population, is and never has been a long term successful model.
I would suggest an autonomous city state cooperative model, where shared interests among dissimilar population groups provide positive cohesion that can hold a civil society together.
As an example, I can’t stand the sight of sanctimonious narcissists from San Francisco. I have nothing at all in common with them. However I get along just fine with farmers and welders from Idaho or Nebraska.
Therefore, why should I be required to live under rules the greater population density San Franciscan representative kleptocrat wants to impose on me. Just seems logical to align with people I have shared interests among, whilst not integrating with dissimilar people who view me only as a subordinate slave who exists for their plunder and satanic entertainment.
This phenomenon is exactly why empires require autocratic and dictatorial governments filled with liars, thieves and pedophiles. It is because there is no other system that can keep large populations in line for any sort of lengthy period of time without a heartless centralized bully that has no compunction whatsoever with killing and enslaving the citizens it’s supposed to serve.
It takes a special kind of sociopath to run such an enterprise, and that personality type is attracted like moths to a flame to large scale governments.
Fact.
"81% of Americans think the government is corrupt. The other 19% probably work for the government."
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