@Peg33 You have to remember, the whole point of the #Trumpublican #GOP is to #DestabilizeGovernment and every institution other than the #Conservative #Church #ItsAFeatureNotABug
@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ the critical thing you're missing is that the government is ALREADY destabilized and faith in institutions has already cratered.
It's critical to realize that Trump is the effect, not the cause.
If those things were solid there would have been no way for him to gain a toehold.
His entire gimmick is saving people from the instability that they were already yelling about.
@volkris @Peg33 I spent some time analyzing Fragility and Stability Indexes for the US and 179 other countries 2007 to 2023. Your assertion that the US Government was ALREADY destabilized is not true. Take a look at the trends in this data. It clearly show stability prior to the time that Trump took office. Moreover, it shows a return to stability when Biden took office. I've included other countries for comparison.
@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ have you considered that analyses like this might be part of the problem, might be part of the misunderstanding of society that lead to so much surprise when Trump was elected?
The methodologies behind such analyses reflect values that might be the very ones that populations have lost faith in.
It's like when the WHO ranks countries for health outcomes, and by health outcomes they mean polices the WHO prefers. It ends up begging the question.
It's more telling to consider things like direct polling on faith in institutions. That helps show a more direct measure without skew.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/public-trust-in-government-1958-2023/
@volkris @Peg33 It's ironic that you site Pew. I use their Religious Landscape Study as the basis for some of my research in religious belief. We are approaching the time (around the 2037-2040) when the Religiously Non-Affiliated will equal and surpass those who beLIEve. Thanks to John Bata for his work #DanglingFaith. It reminds me of Johnathan Edward's Analogy of sinners being suspended over the fires of hell by a thread in his sermon #SinnersInTheHandsOfAnAngryGod