Confidence in U.S. Institutions Down; Average at New Low
Call me when people have higher standards.<p>Everyone likes to complain about the government but when have they actually voted against an incumbent politician?<p>The failure of state governments and the Federal government to meet basic standards of competence and deliver expected outcomes is not going to change until the voters start punishing politicians for it.<p>This situation wouldn&#x27;t fly in a lot of other countries -- if, say, the electrical grid or the public transit or the level of safety in the streets in the UK or France or Germany was as bad as it was in the USA, politicians there would fear for their jobs.<p>In the USA they still do not fear for their jobs, and everyone seems to assume that incompetent government is the natural and only conceivable order of things. That is what needs to change. Until I see incumbent politicians lose their jobs, I won&#x27;t believe that change is coming.