{"id":1194984,"date":"2022-01-06T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194984"},"modified":"2022-01-06T18:05:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T23:05:02","slug":"poll-shows-u-s-public-consensus-the-nation-is-declining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-shows-u-s-public-consensus-the-nation-is-declining\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll Shows U.S. Public Consensus: The Nation Is Declining"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-shows-u-s-public-consensus-the-nation-is-declining%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194984&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A consensus of 77 percent of Americans says the nation\u2019s society and culture are decaying, and only 10 percent believe the nation is improving, according to a new poll by the Trafalgar Group.<\/p>\n<p>The views of Democrats were similar to the overall population.&nbsp;Sixty-one percent of Democrats say the nation is in a \u201cstate of decay.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Only 15 percent of Democrats said the country is progressing \u2014 even though the White House, the House, and the Senate are all dominated by older Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are more pessimistic. Only four percent see progress while 86 percent see decay.<\/p>\n<p>Only 11 percent of&nbsp;swing-voting independents see progress, while 82 percent see decay.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The overall results are broadly similar among age groups. Eighty-two percent of the youngest group, aged 18 to 24, reported decline, slightly above the 80 percent rating reported by Americans aged 65 and over.<\/p>\n<p>The most optimistic group are people aged 25 to 34 \u2014 but 70 percent of them see a nation in decline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/img-0-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19386658\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/img-0-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"994\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most optimistic subgroup were Asians, where 25 percent see progress. Asians are the fast-growing block of legal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Trafalgar is a new firm, yet its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/COSA-National-AmericanSociety-Poll-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polling numbers<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/pollster-ratings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closely matched election results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/COSA-National-AmericanSociety-Poll-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll of 1,076 people<\/a> was conducted December 17-21 for the Convention of States Action advocacy group<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A consensus of 77 percent of Americans says the nation\u2019s society and culture are decaying, and only 10 percent believe the nation is improving, according to a new poll by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}