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The thought just occurred to me.<\/p>\n

Could it be that we have entered a period of terminal grumpiness, that our dissatisfaction with government is a carryover that cannot be shaken loose no matter how well our politicians are functioning in the moment?<\/p>\n

I see that President Biden\u2019s job approval rating stands at just a bit north of 43%. It\u2019s about 9 points less than his disapproval rating.<\/p>\n

Voters\u2019 opinion of Congress is worse than that. We are feeling testy toward the speaker of the House, the minority leader of the House, both party leaders in the Senate.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s going on? We well might be turning the corner on the pandemic; we\u2019re still adding jobs to an economy battered by the disease, albeit at a too-slow rate; joblessness is down. Yes, we have immigration issues that need to be resolved. Our lawmakers cannot get our nation\u2019s budgeting process figured out.<\/p>\n

But damn! I just get this nagging notion that public opinion polling suggests a restiveness that might be carrying over from years past, or from months past.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t see data that examines what is driving Americans\u2019 distrust in government. I hear plenty of anecdotal stuff stemming from the previous administration\u2019s tenure, about how the ex-POTUS was constantly railing against the \u201cdeep state\u201d and those who collected all that power. Voters bought into a lot of what he was saying. I wasn\u2019t one of them. My faith in government remains quite strong as does my belief that government can \u2014 and eventually will \u2014 right itself.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want there to be a state of terminal anger. There are too many good things waiting to occur. At least that\u2019s my hope.<\/p>\n

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The thought just occurred to me. Could it be that we have entered a period of terminal grumpiness, that our dissatisfaction with government is a carryover that cannot be shaken loose no matter how well our politicians are functioning in the moment? I see that President Biden\u2019s job approval rating stands at just a bit … Continue reading Is our grumpiness terminal?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[13],"tags":[2503,2505,9261],"class_list":["post-49442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-joblessness","tag-joe-biden","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49443,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49442\/revisions\/49443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}