Whom do you trust? The first thing to quantify is the definition of trust. Or more succinctly: the levels of trust.
A low level of trust requires a period of time to build. This is a beginning of another individual’s assessment of your character. It is also the first step to building a relationship based on trust which may impact your freedom or even your life. A high level of trust is required of EVERY member of your tribe. This level of trust is equivalent to a group of combat soldiers who understand that their lives depend on the actions of their brothers and sisters.
The article below states that two-thirds of Americans cannot be trusted. This is no surprise to anyone with a moral character. Add the percentage of people who voted for Obama, all government workers and people collecting a government entitlement. Remove the intersecting population and we have at least two-thirds of the country.
Do I trust one third of the people in this country? We have to go back to the initial premise. I might trust one-third of the people to give me correct directions to a location. However, we no longer live in the United States of America that our previous generation knew. We live in a nation where the government is the enemy. Our rights and Liberty have been suspended. We live in a world where our conversations are illegally tapped and the rule of law has been replaced by the rule of man. What the future holds is now in the hands of the Lord. Whom do I trust? With my life? With the life of my family? Less than twenty people. And that is the reality of our country that people must face.
David DeGerolamo
Two-Thirds Of Americans Can’t Be Trusted
Only one-third of Americans say their fellow countrymen can be trusted according to a recent AP-GfK poll, down from over half 40 years ago. Americans are suspicious of each other in everyday encounters and who can blame them with the government appearing to bless any and all surveillance and intervention in the interests of the status quo. “I’m leery of everybody,” warns one respondent, and as AP reports, this is a potential problem for economic growth as “social trust” brings good things. A society where it’s easier to compromise or make a deal; where people are willing to work with those who are different from them for the common good, appears to promote economic growth. Distrust, on the other hand, seems to encourage corruption and there’s no easy fix.
You can take our word for it. Americans don’t trust each other anymore.
We’re not talking about the loss of faith in big institutions such as the government, the church or Wall Street, which fluctuates with events. For four decades, a gut-level ingredient of democracy – trust in the other fellow – has been quietly draining away.
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