Stephan:   This is a trend that should concern everyone, particularly politicians. However, the quality of politicians in the U.S., particularly Republican politicians, as human beings is so degraded today many of them aren't capable of understanding the implications of a survey like this. And about a third of the population daily demonstrates the racism, lack of education, and inability to sustain rational thought that is the hallmark of MAGAt world. You should pay particular attention to the difference in age cohorts. People like me who grew up in the U.S. before the Nixon administration, took civics courses in school, and lived in the glow of the progressive forward thinking achievements of the Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower administrations, and the pride of their parents for America winning World War II, and enacting the Marshall Plan afterwards. If you grew up from Reagan onwards, well, it was a different country, as is reflected in the steeply declining social outcome data. The rest of the world, as I have reported in earlier SR reports, thinks less and less of the U.S. each year, and now so do large numbers of young people. That is a trend with long term, and negative, social implications.