The following is from Rasmussen Reports.
The recent Rasmussen Reports survey survey shows that concerns about government spying on American citizens remain high. Seventy-one percent (71%) of likely U.S. voters say they are concerned about domestic surveillance, including forty percent (40%) who say they are very concerned. Only twenty-five percent (25%) say they are not concerned, reflecting widespread unease about privacy and government oversight. These findings have only slightly changed from January 2021, when Joe Biden was President-elect.
When it comes to trust in the government’s judgment on domestic surveillance, twenty percent (20%) say they trust the government to make the right decisions, while sixty-one percent (61%) say they do not trust it. Another nineteen percent (19%) say they are unsure, highlighting significant skepticism about how surveillance is handled.
Americans are divided on how government spying might change under President-elect Donald Trump. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Democrats say they believe spying will increase. In contrast, fifty-six percent (56%) of Republicans say they think surveillance will decrease. Among unaffiliated voters, forty-four percent (44%) say they expect an increase, twenty-eight percent (28%) say they believe it will decrease, and seventeen percent (17%) say they think it will stay the same.
Women are slightly more likely than men to say they believe government spying will increase under Trump, with forty-seven percent (47%) of women compared to forty-three percent (43%) of men holding this view. Younger voters under 40 are more likely to say they trust the government’s judgment on surveillance, while older voters, especially those aged 65 and older, say they are the most likely to be very concerned about government spying.
This survey, conducted on December 22-23 and 26, 2024, polled 1,454 likely U.S. voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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What is “The Government?” In terms of the former ‘Constitutional Republic’ (pre 1871), we have witnessed the actions of a US Corporation, Inc (which is now bankrupt, by the accounts of noteworthy monetary sleuths) that has been regulated via the EU Central Banking system in tandem with the FED. As Catherine Austin Fitts remarked: ‘Americans have a hard time accepting the idea that We the People have no sovereign government.’ Hence, the fact that so many ‘citizens’ (chattel units of barter) don’t trust the government needs further discernment. The ‘Corporate-Government’ which is enabled to tax the people, and then use the money any way they deem as necessary, doesn’t consider the needs of We the People as a priority. This is why Pharma, and the war-industrial-complex continue to rule the US Treasury. It’s also important for people to consider that we can send satellites into space and create 5G towers across the land, and yet never solve issues of poverty and the increasing numbers of homeless people–now estimated at 770,000 (to include military veterans). However, congress can continue to send billions of dollars (now at a combined estimate of over $300 Bil, including EU/UK funds)to Ukraine to subsidize a mafia program which profits from human suffering. Very few adults wish to acknowledge the revelations re child trafficking, much less how Ukraine is a hub for these sorts of dark affairs. May 2025 be the year of the US Republic’s return, or perhaps we relocate the US Capitol elsewhere…as long as it’s not Beijing!