Do you generally trust your fellow Americans?

[Writer]

Use your own interpretation of the word "trust."

[no_hypocrisy]

1. It depends.

Not blindly, not wholesale.

[MoonRiver]

2. I trust but verify.

Is there a purpose to this OP? Are you writing a thesis, and need data? :)

[xchrom]

3. generally if they are gay -- straights not so much nt

[Yes We Did]

4. Wow.

That's all.

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[Drunken Irishman]

9. heh

[stray cat]

5. I trust Individuals I know well and respect but not any general group in mass

[mikehiggins]

10. ditto n/t

[gravity]

6. It depends on what I am trusting them with

[Milspec]

7. Trust doing what?..

All 305 million of them. What to watch my Apt when I'm out of town? There should be some sort of standard for polls. This is meaningless.

[ZombieHorde]

13. Your misunderstanding comes from overthinking.

Just relax a little and you will become smarter.

Smart people think themselves stupid.

[IndianaGreen]

8. When it comes to LGBT rights, the only people I trust are my fellow comrades

They have stood alongside with me, and will continue to stand alongside with, for full equality for LGBT, including marriage rights.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. I trust individuals, not groups n/t

[Hawkowl]

12. Idiots.

Americans, as a group, have to be the biggest bunch of idiots on the planet. We are constantly acting against are own values and self interest merely because someone on TV tells us to. Most of the time I'm ashamed to be part of this world wrecking tribe of idiots.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. i trust most americans and democrats to repeatedly betray glbt americans

while continuing to demand our vote and our money as some sort of "well at least we don't want to put you away in rehabilitation camps"

protection money, if you will.

[bigwillq]

24. Amen, sister!

:thumbsup: :hi: :hug:

[Rhythm]

26. Well said, Pri...

:hug:

[donco6]

27. Me too.

And we have the experience to back it up.

[csziggy]

16. I usually trust liberal Americans

Not so much foreign nationals and Republicans, especially Republicans that listen to RW talk radio.

RW Repubs are pretty self-explanatory here for why I would not trust them. Foreign nationals, well, the two individuals in my life that ripped me off the worst were both foreign nationals. One Swedish, the other Canadian. I have done business with only three foreign nationals in my life - the other was Columbian - so I don't like the odds there.

[Maru Kitteh]

17. no more or less than any other citizen of humanity.

[TahitiNut]

18. Not as much as I did before November 1969.

:shrug: Not even close.

[Sebastian Doyle]

19. 91% of this country trusted Chimpy after a tragedy he could have prevented and might have planned

I find it hard to trust anybody who put any sort of faith in that piece of shit.

[annabanana]

20. "I USUALLY trust my fellow Americans". . The more accurate the information

they are working with, the better their choices have been... just about always.

[MrSlayer]

21. I trust no one as a general rule.

I have found that very few people are worthy of it, American or otherwise.

[machI]

28. Trust is something that has to be earned, not assumed

I have no trust in any person or institution until they have earned my trust.

[ElboRuum]

22. I answered rarely...

...but only because I assume the question to mean something like "trust... to act in the best interests of either me or others in general" or "trust... to do the right thing".

While I may not have the age under my belt that others here have, one thing that has become very obvious to me is that people generally act in their own best interests and rarely anyone else's unless acting in the best interest of another somehow benefits them as well. Most of the time, where "trust" becomes paramount and when we talk about it most in the sense of betrayal, is when you require a person to act in a manner which is not directly in their best interests, but rather yours or someone else's where acting in their own might cause someone else discomfort, harm, or other negative outcome.

This may seem cynical and harsh. But what do you expect? I live among humans.

[mitchum]

23. I trust them to be violent and sentimental Yahoos

[stillcool]

25. I trust people will..

behave like people, and they do some crazy shit.

[SKKY]

29. About as far as I can throw 'em...

Just kidding. Generally, yes, I'm a trusting person.

[Bluenorthwest]

30. Much less every day

I trust individuals, never groups. And I trust far fewer individuals now than I did a year ago. I'll never ever extend any form of 'benefit of the doubt' to any politician again. If they want my vote, they can stand beside me and ask for it, they can stand up for me and earn it. Half baked luke warm support will never get a vote from me again. Ever.

Trust? In what? I trust they will lie to my face, take my money and then slander my family to please some preacher. Is that the sort of trust you mean?

[Forkboy]

31. Surprisingly I do, until they form groups.

Then they're dangerous and unpredictable, and I stay in my fortified compound. :)

[whistler162]

32. I never trust a poster of polls.....

other than that yes I trust my fellow Americans!

[leftofthedial]

33. I trust those who earn my trust,

period.

[ellisonz]

34. Generally no, and especially HELL NO if they are pigs.

[BlooInBloo]

35. Flypaper for all of the randian glibertarian idiots?

[LWolf]

36. Trust them to do WHAT? nt

[AlCzervik]

37. to what, drive my car, watch my kid, get me a beer?

[southernyankeebelle]

38. I want too trust my fellow americans

I would say when something very bad happens in the country we all seem to come to together to do the right thing. That has always been the american way. I know living among military families we always look out for each other. I believe american people are basically a good people.

[MasonJar]

39. When 50% vote twice for a waste of space like Bush and then learn nothing

and promote another brainless one like Palin, what's to trust. Compared to most of the world, a majority of Americans devalue education and are satisfied with money and glamor; substance and intelligence and culture just aren't their things. I do not value or trust such attitudes. Americans in general are nice, but they are nonetheless small-minded and narrow-minded.

[treestar]

40. After the 2008 election, yes

And I was cynical to the last.

My trust in the American people was at an alltime low in 2004. Improved in 2006. In 2008, they finally justified themselves.

[ogneopasno]

41. As people, yes. As groups, or to do the right thing most of the time, not always.