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Okay, okay, okay, hold on. These same people who distrust the average american and institutions, according to the chart, are more likely to trust politicians a

Okay, okay, okay, hold on. These same people who distrust the average american and institutions, according to the chart, are more likely to trust politicians and business leaders. Literally the two fields that are known to produce lying, self serving assholes (I have a small business, I'm in that group). No, young Americans don't have a trust issue, they have a wisdom issue. What's next, they decide that voting rights should only be given to the clergy and nobles because they know better than the every day person? Politicians have historically been know to be dishonest, self serving, lazy bastards since Socrates time. Read Plato's the Republic. Or hell Caesar and the other two in the triumphant. Do I need to prove business leaders? Really? Do I? And I'm one of them... eh, minus the leader part. But I wont step forward as a saint anytime soon. Businesses are inherently self serving and will gladly lie to achieve that. Let's see, wall street in general, Theranos, Apple's sweat shop practices, well any big tech firm when it comes to privacy. COME ON! Am I taking crazy pills? Maybe it's TRUE. Democracy is a bad idea. The average person is an idiot and shouldn't have the right to govern themselves. At least a dog eventually bites you back if you beat 'em too many times. It seems like the average 30 year old American prefers to be lied to and will gladly follow and lie to themselves as long as they have a pretty new phone.

grraaaaahhh 7y ago
>These same people who distrust the average american and institutions, according to the chart, are more likely to trust politicians and business leaders. Literally the two fields that are known to produce lying, self serving assholes (I have a small business, I'm in that group). Just the opposite. The graphs are kind of swapped in the direction that means "more trusting". The first one is proportion of people who agree with the statements (which are based on distrust) so right is less trusting. The second one is proportion of people who have a great or fair amount of confidence in that group, so right is more trusting.

grraaaaahhh 7y ago

>These same people who distrust the average american and institutions, according to the chart, are more likely to trust politicians and business leaders. Literally the two fields that are known to produce lying, self serving assholes (I have a small business, I'm in that group). Just the opposite. The graphs are kind of swapped in the direction that means "more trusting". The first one is proportion of people who agree with the statements (which are based on distrust) so right is less trusting. The second one is proportion of people who have a great or fair amount of confidence in that group, so right is more trusting.