Here's something everyone agrees on: Governments are corrupt
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SJ Mayor Mahan's framing his March '25 budget message around government accountability—and he's likely to find a lot of popular support. New data suggests that citizens from across the political spectrum think gov't is rigged. Newsweek reports.
A new poll has found an area that most Americans can agree on despite growing political polarization: the government is not on their side.
The University of Chicago Institute of Politics recently released a survey which found over half of its respondents agreeing that the government is "corrupt and rigged against me." Conducted by a Democratic and Republican pollster, the survey is another sign of Americans' growing distrust in established institutions.
While Democrats and Republicans have found common cause in distrusting the government, the survey found that didn't translate into greater trust of each other. Roughly three-quarters of Democrats and Republicans both agreed the other side "are generally bullies who want to impose their political beliefs on those who disagree."
"While we've documented for years the partisan polarization in the country, these poll results are perhaps the starkest evidence of the deep divisions in partisan attitudes rippling through the country," said Republican pollster Neil Newhouse, who conducted the survey with Democratic pollster Joel Benenson, in a summary of its results
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