The American electorate-does anyone know what is going on?

It seems many and in some cases, most Americans don’t like what is going on, don’t support liberal ideals, hold Congress in low regard, don’t support current trends and generally are out of tune with the direction of the Country and yet 🔻🔻🔻

we seem to vote for the same people over and over (or don’t vote) and remain sorely under informed about the issues affecting us. I see it every day in the comments posted on this blog.

What is especially amazing is that all this is occurring in an age of instant information when any claim or promise can be checked six ways to Sunday in a matter of minutes and you can read a half dozen newspapers on a tablet each morning and even set up Google to send you news from around the world on topics you designate.

Do you want to know the problems with retirement people in Singapore are facing? Probably not, me neither actually, but I do want to read the latest Medicare and Social Security Trustees reports and I get them automatically. Google is my new best friend actually sending me e-mail before I do

Take a look at this from Rasmussen.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

American voters have more information than ever, it seems, but the real question is, do they know it?

Sixty-two percent (62%) of Likely U.S. Voters complain that they don’t have enough say when it comes to choosing their leaders. But in the same survey, while 90% say voters in countries with democratically elected governments have a responsibility to be informed about major policy issues, just nine percent (9%) feel most of their fellow countrymen are informed voters.

And what have the voters wrought?

For one thing, they’ve chosen a president who continues to earn a double-digit negative job approval rating as he has for most of his time in office. Seventy-three percent (73%) now consider the president at least somewhat liberal in political terms, the highest finding in nearly four years. But only 11% of voters consider themselves liberal when it comes to both fiscal and social issues.

Then there’s an elected Congress that just nine percent (9%) of voters give good or excellent marks to, and that’s an improvement from recent months.

Only 19% now trust the federal government to do the right thing most or nearly all the time, so Americans aren’t likely to be surprised by the controversy that has erupted over the performance of the federal Department of Veterans Affairs. Just 21% think the government does a good or excellent job delivering veterans benefits, although interestingly recipients of those benefits give the feds slightly better marks.

The federal government and the courts continue to advance the cause of gay marriage nationwide, but voters remain closely divided when asked if they approve.

So, whose fault is the mess we are in? The people who spend money influencing the people we elect, the people who are elected or the people who elect the people being influenced? It will be interesting to see what happens in November.