on Mar 12, 2026 02:25 am
Research Staff, – Pew Research Center
Stephan: For three years, since I really saw and understood the trend — See SR archives — I have been telling you about what I call The Great Schism Trend. The United States has become culturally two different countries in a single nation. It is this division that is tearing the United States apart, and I do not think it will heal until we emerge from the oncoming crisis that will begin in 2040, and there is a culture-wide recognition in America that fostering wellbeing must be a society’s main priority. I urge you to click through and read the Pew Research study, and look at all the charts. I also urge you, particularly if you have children, to consider relocating to a strongly Blue state. They will be safer and more supportive of wellbeing as this trend continues.
These are countries whose culture is more supportive of fostering wellbeing
53% of U.S. adults say Americans have bad morals and ethics. Americans are more likely than people in other countries surveyed in 2025 to question the morality of their fellow countrymen, according to Pew Research Center surveys in 25 countries.
We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.In nearly all countries surveyed, more people say that others in their country have somewhat or very good morals than say their compatriots display somewhat or very bad levels of morality.
The United States is the only place we surveyed where more adults (ages 18 and older) describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad (53%) than as good (47%).
Because we have never asked this question before, we don’t know whether a majority of Americans have long held a skeptical view of the ethics of fellow Americans, or if it’s something new – and if so, what’s driving it. But partisan politics appear to play a role.
Democrats and independents who […]
Dark new poll reveals something deeply broken in America — and it predates Trump
on Mar 12, 2026 02:20 am
Robert Reich, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at University of California – Berkeley and Former Secretary of Labor – Raw Story
Stephan: Here is Robert Reich’s commentary on the poll in the previous article. As you saw in my comment on the poll report, I completely agree with him. The Great Schism Trend was predicted in my Remote Viewing project, but I did not properly comprehend how destructive it was going to be.
A demonstrator shouts in front of Trump Tower in New York City. Credit: Eduardo Munoz / Reuters
A survey released last Thursday by the Pew Research Center finds that 53 percent of American adults describe the morality and ethics of our fellow citizens as “bad” (ranging from “somewhat bad” to “very bad”).
This puts Americans way out front of other nations on the we-hate-our-compatriots scale. In the 24 other countries polled by Pew, most people called their fellow citizens somewhat good or very good.
At the opposite end of the spectrum from the United States is Canada, where 92 percent say their fellow Canadians are good, while just 7 percent say they’re bad.
Why are we so down on our fellow citizens? It may have something to do with our politics.
Some 30 years ago, my dear friend, the late Republican Senator Alan Simpson, told me Democrats viewed Republicans as stupid and Republicans viewed Democrats as evil.
“I’d rather be in the stupid party,” he chuckled.
I asked him why […]