Americans' Confidence in Institutions Stays Low

Re:Americans' Confidence in Institutions Stays Low by vermontdevil on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @02:57PM (#11911240)

Most Americans' common encounter with the "institutions" would be the following:

DMV (motor vehicle bureau/department) Post Office Police/Courts Local schools Social Security

Our government is not monolithic. It's vast (ranging from SS, military, FAA, FDA, NASA, etc etc) and on the state level as well.

But seems many Americans' experience are mostly with these front line departments and quite often it is not quite positive.

But many of us do not see beyond this and want to tear down everything regardless of how essential many of these agencies/services are.

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Re:Americans' Confidence in Institutions Stays Low by CaptSpify on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @03:35PM (#11911539)

You don't notice when things go well. If you have a good experience with the Fire Department, you aren't going to say "wow, I wish we could take down that institution". It just disappears from your mind.

I'm sure there's a term for this, but I don't know what it is.

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