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In a recent poll, Rasmussen discovered that only 30% of likely U.S. voters trust the political news that they receive. This is a seven-point decrease from July of 2021. A full 52% of likely U.S. voters now say they do not trust news media. This is up from 43% when a similar poll was conducted in 2021.
Strikingly, a majority of likely U.S. voters, 59%, say they agree with the questioning sentiment, “The media being ‘truly the enemy of the people?’” Another interesting result is 66% of Republicans believe media coverage of politics favors Democrats and 60% of Democrats agree.
Broken down by income, voters earning between $30,000-$50,000 a year are more likely to say that they don’t “trust the political news that they are getting.” Voters earning more than $200,000 are least likely to agree that the media is the “enemy of the people.”
The elites, people at the top tiers of wealth, or those capable of gaming the system, don’t have any complaints because money talks. While the hard-working taxpayer who doesn’t like the fact that their taxes are being squandered gets continually upbraided by the media. These are the same hard-working Moms and Dads who will be targeted with increased scrutiny by the IRS or the DOJ for actually caring about what their kids are taught in school.
This same distrust is playing out in responses to local slanted news and media coverage for Oregon’s Independent and Republican Senators. Most Oregonians appear to prefer facing abusive power head-on. They would rather face the future with a sincere assessment instead of getting only sugar-coated, rainbow cartoons drawn on the pavement around the chalk-outline of our culture.
Support for Independent and Republican Senators and their principled stand against the unconstitutional, illegal and uncompromising actions of the Democrat party is over-whelming. There appears to be momentum away from the typical, “go along to get along” mentality. Hard-working people, minorities, business-owners, nearly everyone, but the well-connected and elite classes, are fed up with the “business as usual” model for government expansion.
As I said in my op-ed with LifeSiteNews, based on my own inbox, the Senators’ “denial of quorum” effort has met with awe-inspiring support (20:1). And, meaningfully, there has been little traction with the repeated media sloganeering about Measure 113 and Senators, “violating the constitution” or, “not doing their jobs.”
Measure 113 was an attempt to solidify the ungainly abuse of power that is already present in Oregon’s long-standing, Democrat-party power structure. It was tenaciously calculated by union backed players to allow the Senate President to throw Republicans out of office if they refused to submit to the tyranny of the majority. It is being capriciously applied because no statutory implementation language exists.
Senate President, Rob Wagner (D-Lake Oswego) is unscrupulously abusing this as a form of revenge and political retribution. He granted excused absences to Republican and Independent Senators only to turn-around, in a seemingly retaliatory rage, and rescind those excused absences without any justification.
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