Majority Now Believe that Federal Government is ‘Corrupt and Rigged’

Another poll showing how Americans have grown to distrust — even despise — our government has been released showing that a majority feel that the government is “corrupt and rigged” against the average American.

The new poll comes from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and it shows that most Americans are very negative on a range of issues including trust in government.

According to Jazz Shaw, “They asked respondents whether they felt that the United States government was honest or corrupt. They wanted to know if people felt that the government treats them fairly or if the system is rigged. And perhaps most disturbingly of all, they inquired as to whether the respondents felt that the time may be coming when they might need to “take up arms” against their own government.”

The results are discouraging, to say the least.

It turned out, the majority felt the government is corrupt and rigged against average Americans and a third felt it would be advisable to take up arms against the government.

The Hill reported:

A majority of Americans say the U.S. government is corrupt and almost a third say it may soon be necessary to take up arms against it, according to a new poll from the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.

Two-thirds of Republicans and independents say the government is “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me,” according to the poll, compared to 51 percent of liberal voters.

Twenty-eight percent of all voters, including 37 percent of gun owners, agreed “it may be necessary at some point soon for citizens to take up arms against the government,” a view held by around 35 percent of Republicans and around 35 percent of Independents. One in five Democrats concurred.

Naturally, with their party out of power, Republicans really felt that the system is corrupt. But 51 percent of Democrats did too, even though they control the levers of the federal government.

Jazz Shaw summed up the situation well:

While I understand that Tucker Carlson can be a controversial figure at times, he’s been sounding warnings about this precise situation for months now. There is a limit to how much people will be willing or able to tolerate. As long as they have faith that the underlying system is at least being fair to them, they will put up with quite a bit. But when the nation loses that faith and broadly begins to believe that they are laboring under a corrupt system that is rigged against them and their fundamental needs are not being met, the entire system can collapse in a dramatic fashion very quickly as we’re already seeing in other nations. Look around at the conditions we’re dealing with in the United States today and then look at those poll numbers again. Ask yourself if the unthinkable is still unthinkable. And the people who need to carefully consider these questions more than anyone else are in the White House and in Congress.

This is where the elites have taken us, folks.

Maybe it is time to clean house?

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