New Research Says 70% Of ‘Americans Think The System Is Rigged’ Against Them By Powerful Elites

The study was conducted by the FrameWorks Institute, an organization owned by USA Today, surveyed 35,000 Americans since2020, which found that a large amount of Americans have a total distrust in its leaders and country.

FrameWorks noted the following (excerpts):

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Seventy percent of Americans believe that people in power are rigging the system to benefit themselves at the expense of the rest of us. In the FrameWorks Institute’s 25 years studying mindsets, the system-is-rigged mindset is among the strongest and most pervasive we’ve seen in American culture. Americans draw on this mindset to make sense of almost every aspect of society—from the economy, to the political system, to how people are treated based on their gender or race. This can lead to productive critiques of power and increased demand for changes that create a fairer society. But it can also prompt xenophobic and racist scapegoating, or lead to fatalism—the conclusion that the problem is just too big to solve.

The majority of Americans think the system is rigged. When asked “do you think the system is rigged in America?” 70% of respondents said “yes” and 30% said “no.”

In interviews and focus groups, FrameWorks’ research participants have given voice to different activations of the system-is-rigged mindset—from acknowledgements of racist structures to anti-Semitic tropes:

“Politicians are rigging the system […]. The cronies who are perpetuating their
viewpoints and their policies that benefit themselves and others at their station. And
it’s affecting those who are not aligned with their viewpoints.”

“It’s a great example of exactly the sort of thing that our social systems are supposed
to be stopping from happening and they aren’t because they are specifically built
[that way]. Things like redlining, things like when they originally tried to do ‘separate
but equal.’ All that kind of stuff is meant to keep that ‘other,’ whatever that ‘other’ is—
whether it’s brown people, Black people, or women, you name it—they knew what they
were doing.”

“Everybody that has money is rigging the system. Everybody with money. Politicians,
businessmen, real estate moguls, even criminals, everybody’s rigging the system.”

“There are a couple of public figures, George Soros and Schwab, that have made no
secret about their intent to instill a one-government world. While our country as a
governmental concept is actually quite young, it’s all we know is our independence.
We’re resistant, but it’s difficult to battle money and all the influence it carries.”

This research shows a thread of common thinking amidst a polarizing time—a thread that is too dominant and pervasive in American culture to sidestep or avoid. As we enter 2025, with new leaders in Washington and around the country, it’s important that policymakers, advocates, and social issue communicators are aware of the widespread and durable nature of this mindset and how it’s shaping American culture. The FrameWorks Institute will continue to study the different angles with which this mindset pervades American life.

Read the full report here.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

These statistics are congruent with previous surveys I reported in 2024 before the November elections. In May, a survey found that a good number of younger Americans, Millennials and Zoomers, believe the U.S. is a “dying empire led by bad people.” Almost half of the respondents said they strongly or somewhat agree that the winner of the Presidential election would not change anything. They are of course correct, as BlackRock’s Larry Fink has said, that “it doesn’t matter” if Trump or Kamala won.

This was reiterated in another report in July following the clown show that was the Republican National Convention (RNC). SEE: Gong Show: Over 60% Of Americans Think Trump And Biden Are ‘Embarrassing’ As Americans Lose Hope In Leadership

Of course, in typical “boomer meme” fashion, the eldest of our population proportionally still don’t understand just how bad the problems are, and that the U.S. is not to be feared and reverenced anymore, and why younger Americans feel the way that they do.

But since Trump’s victory, the peer pressure to vote for the loser you hate the least has waned, and people (especially those who voted for Trump and the MAGA movement) are quickly realizing it was, once again, just empty promises and rhetoric to con hopeless Americans that something was going to change.

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Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

Only a blind, comatose lobotomy patient would think we live in a truly free nation. Nothing could be further from the truth. George Carlin said it best: “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it! You and I are not in the big club. […] It’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

But Americans’ epiphany and realization that they are nothing more than homeborn slaves has come far too late to make any real changes. You reap what you sow, and now the reaping is about to take place next year…

Joel 3:13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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