If you chose the wording of a poll , you control the outcome .
Presidential elections have been determined by news reports of Gallup polls based on a sampling of only a couple of hundred citizens ( and those were probably selected ) . The minuscule percentage of the whole population was not reported . This trick goes back to the 1930’s . Phyliss Schlafly’s book ‘A Choice , not an Echo’ first published in 1964 and recently updated describes how the true conservative movement was co-opted this way . Well worth reading . Eisenhower was chosen instead of Taft , then went on to win the presidency this way , but on his way out , near the end of his term of office warned of the military-industrial complex ( funded by the banks .) I am sure that displeased the kingmakers who put him in the White House .
I would say that America came off the tracks when states’ rights were destroyed by the federalist movement during the civil war . I doubt that it can be restored . Most of us are pawns of the banks , which are all too happy to loan the country the fiat needed to fund global wars , foreign aid , domestic programs , ‘carbon payments’ , etc.
18 Trillion in debt ? What a joke !
That is only the tip of the iceberg , visible above the deep fog bank , above the waterline .