Hostile political rhetoric erodes trust in government at alarming levels: survey

http://www.mlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/05/tom_ivacko_survey_finds_hostil.html

Government of the people? For the people? By the people? Unfortunately, not many of the people appear to be for the government at this point. The percentage of Americans who trust the federal government to “do what is right” always or most of the time has fallen dramatically over the last five decades, from 73 percent in 1958, to just 26 percent today.