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The article discusses a Gallup poll released on January 6, 2024, that reveals a significant and “precipitous decline” in public trust in various American institutions since the 1970s. The author, Miles Mathis, highlights substantial drops in trust for the Presidency (from 72% in 1991 to 23% in 2022), Congress (from 42% to 7% since 1973), the Supreme Court (from 45% to 25% since 1988), TV news (from 46% in 1993 to 11% in 2022), newspapers (from 51% to 16% since 1979), the medical system (from 80% in 1975 to 34% in 2023), the criminal justice system (now at 17%), big business (from 34% to 14% since 1975), banks (from 60% to 26% since 1979), and public schools (from 62% to 26% since 1976). Trust in the military has also fallen from 82% to 60% since 2009. The author questions why Gallup is redacting certain data and suggests the actual declines are likely even worse, potentially reaching near-zero in many categories. The author attributes this collapse in trust to factors like Covid, the vaccines, and what they describe as a failed propaganda machine controlled by entities like the CIA. They specifically mention Bill Gates, Tony Fauci, Albert Bourla, the WHO, FDA, and CDC as figures with diminished public trust, suggesting that the continued adverse effects of vaccines will further erode confidence. The author also expresses skepticism about the methodology of the Gallup poll, particularly its sample size of 1000 people, and suggests that numbers for institutions like the Presidency are artificially inflated. The article refers to the post-Vietnam era in relation to distrust in the military.