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Gallup has asked the question since the September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC. Last year's survey showed the confidence at its lowest point of only 55 percent.
Confidence in the government's protection ranged from 73 percent to 82 percent under President George W. Bush, and held at around 75 percent under President Barack Obama until 2015, when it began to slide to 67 percent. Confidence dropped sharply following the San Bernardino attack.
With the increased trust in the government comes a decrease in worry about becoming a victim of terrorism. Only 42 percent now say they are "very" or "somewhat" worried that they or a family member will be a victim, down from 51 percent after San Bernardino and close to the 41-percent average since 1995, when the question was first asked.
After San Bernardino, two out of three Americans (67 percent) said that it was "very" or "somewhat" likely that an act of terrorism will take place in the US over the next several weeks. That number has since declined to 60 percent.
"Americans' fears have fluctuated in the post-9/11 world and are susceptible to flaring up yet again when events occur at home or abroad," the pollsters said.
This is the first poll measuring the public's trust in the government's counter-terrorism efforts since Donald Trump became president in January.
Trump campaigned as a candidate who would protect Americans from terrorism and promised strict measures that would keep the country safe, Gallup noted. The president's highest approval numbers were in the category of how he handles terrorism and the economy.
However, two federal circuit courts have halted the implementation of both versions of Trump's travel ban, which sought a temporary stop on entry into the US for nationals of several Muslim-majority countries currently affected by terrorism or civil war.
The June 7-11 poll was conducted on a sample of 1,009 adult Americans, and followed two major terrorist attacks in the UK.
All created to make an anxious population that has doubts, they see there neighbors struggling, will they be next in line for so called social handouts.
This is not just in the US it's prevalent in the UK and Europe also
A system your grandparents, you parents and you have also paid into, a social security net.
As for terrorists, look to your governments, it's not the terrorist that are eating away at your life, your livelihood, your incomes, the security of your families.
They have wasted your money on wars, here there an everywhere and when it comes to taking care of you, where is the money, ask yourselves and your governments.
Is what I am writing the truth,
It is nothing more than any number of people have also expressed in written words on the internet, in articles available on the net, in blogosperes, on Ytube in interviews,
In fact a whole mass of people that no longer have rose colored glasses pasted to there faces.
The end result can only be that after all what 40, 50, 60, probably many years of programming of the Western public there is some indication that it has had an impact on the way the mass population thinks, feels and believes in here government.
Maybe this is reverse psychology, tell people that 70% believe this way and the other 30% will follow.
Then there is also the possibility that 70% know this is all bullshit and can't believe that 30% are so ignorant and can be fooled by any man/woman that comes along, looks nice, dresses immaculately, smiles with toilet bowl teeth and tells them the gods honest truth and believes every word that"s uttered from there lying mouths
Now being able to discern the truth from lies, from a bunch of shysters, well, that takes knowledge, intuition, and discernment.
A rare ability.