{"id":35336,"date":"2018-06-21T09:12:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35336"},"modified":"2018-06-21T09:12:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:12:57","slug":"is-the-united-states-on-a-road-to-becoming-ungovernable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35336","title":{"rendered":"Is The United States On A Road To Becoming Ungovernable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/is-the-united-states-on-a-road-to-becoming-ungovernable\">Is The United States On A Road To Becoming Ungovernable?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13888\" src=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Americas-Future-Public-Domain-540x405.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Americas-Future-Public-Domain-540x405.jpg 540w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Americas-Future-Public-Domain-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Americas-Future-Public-Domain-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Americas-Future-Public-Domain.jpg 1280w\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/>For a long time I have observed the rancor in modern American political discourse, and I have become concerned about where all of this anger and frustration is taking us.\u00a0 In order for any society to function, there must be some form of government.\u00a0 And in order for government to function, a certain percentage of the population has to be willing to submit to the authority of that government.\u00a0 For example, there will always be a few tax protesters out there that refuse to pay their taxes, but if every single American suddenly decided to stop paying taxes our system of taxation would collapse overnight.\u00a0 Sure, the government could prosecute thousands of us, but if that crackdown still didn\u2019t motivate people to start paying their taxes there is not much that could be done.\u00a0 The only reason any form of government works is because enough people buy into the narrative that the government is legitimate and should be respected.\u00a0 Here in the United States, fewer and fewer people are buying into that narrative.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Pew Research Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.people-press.org\/2017\/12\/14\/public-trust-in-government-1958-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pew Research Center<\/a>, <a title=\"Gallup\" href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/5392\/trust-government.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gallup<\/a>, and <a title=\"NPR\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/01\/17\/578422668\/heres-just-how-little-confidence-americans-have-in-political-institutions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a> have all run polls that show that faith in government is near all-time lows in the United States.\u00a0 A lot of us have been let down so many times, and most of us simply do not \u201cbelieve in America\u201d like we once did.\u00a0 Yes, we may still believe in \u201cthe people\u201d or \u201cthe values\u201d that the nation was founded upon, but at our core we just do not have faith in our governmental institutions.<\/p>\n<p>But simply being disillusioned is not going to be enough to make us ungovernable.\u00a0 Generations of Americans have complained about government, but they have always gone along with the system.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is The United States On A Road To Becoming Ungovernable? For a long time I have observed the rancor in modern American political discourse, and I have become concerned about where all of this anger and frustration is taking us.\u00a0 In order for any society to function, there must be some form of government.\u00a0 And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20598,20599,20600,2132,14766,4901,7452],"class_list":["post-35336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-america-ungovernable","tag-civil-discord","tag-civil-strife","tag-civil-unrest","tag-civil-unrest-in-america","tag-michael-snyder","tag-the-economic-collapse-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35337,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35336\/revisions\/35337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}