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Friday, June 17th, 2022

Record-High 50% of Americans Rate U.S. Moral Values as ‘Poor’

Author:     MEGAN BRENAN
Source:     The Gallup Organization
Publication Date:     JUNE 15, 2022
 Link: Record-High 50% of Americans Rate U.S. Moral Values as ‘Poor’
Stephan:   Gallup has measured the problem: our culture is completely out of whack. Its values are all screwed up. Until we learn and integrate it into our being that fostering wellbeing must be an individual commitment which will, in turn, make it a social, economic and poltical first priority, more and more people will feel the decay of our culture and it will be measurably manifested in our social outcome data.
  • 50% say state of moral values is “poor”; 37% “only fair”
  • 78% think moral values in the U.S. are getting worse
  • “Consideration of others” cited as top problem with state of moral values

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A record-high 50% of Americans rate the overall state of moral values in the U.S. as “poor,” and another 37% say it is “only fair.” Just 1% think the state of moral values is “excellent” and 12% “good.”

Although negative views of the nation’s moral values have been the norm throughout Gallup’s 20-year trend, the current poor rating is the highest on record by one percentage point.

These findings, from Gallup’s May 2-22 Values and Beliefs poll, are generally in line with perceptions since 2017 except for a slight improvement in views in 2020 when Donald Trump was running for reelection. On average since 2002, 43% of U.S. adults have rated moral values in the U.S. as poor, 38% as fair and 18% as excellent or good.

Republicans’ increasingly negative assessment of the state of moral values is largely responsible for the record-high overall poor rating. […]

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