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Who is the most trusted person in the US?
- Thread starter Realyst
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I'd honestly be surprised at this point if anyone can crack 50% in terms of percent of the population who trusts them. Or, if anyone can beat that, it's because they've never spoken on anything with serious political salience, and as soon as they did their trust level would plummet.
Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and some new one coming out, he directly executive produced. Throw Saving Private Ryan in there too.
Clint Eastwood can catch these shots too AFAIK.
It's gotta be someone on Era
US-era, form a single-file line, please. It's time to start doing some trust fall exercises
US-era, form a single-file line, please. It's time to start doing some trust fall exercises
i am in a heavily catholic family and most catholics know do not trust the pope because they think he is "socialist" lol
Except Pope Francis has seen a pretty sharp decline in popularity among the Evangelical population, and the decline is only accelerating. Evangelicals don't like Catholics much in the first place and this particular pope is socially liberal by the standards of the Catholic Church, which alienates the happy-clappys even further.
Yes, that Tom Hanks. He didn't ask who was your most trusted person in the US, he asked in general.
Yes this. People are saying Tom Hanks because he generally doesn't comment on politics. If he did half the country would hate him.
I was wrong, he was born in Beirut. He gained US citizenship via his father and British via his mother. But he grew up in Canada so he considers himself Canadian.
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Millions of Americans think that he's a Satan-worshipping pedophile.
Bernie Sanders, AOC, Ilhan Omar and Richard Wolff are some of the most trusted people in the US.
Most trusted person? Bernie Sanders.
Most trusted person? Bernie Sanders.
For all the good he has done, He lied at the beginning about the masks importance
And that video has been used for the worst
Lol
Edit: you guys cannot be serious with some of these suggestions. AOC? Bernie? What world are you guys living in? You realize more than half of the country actively hates these people and even a big chunk of the left (moderates etc) wouldn't even "trust" them. Then you have all the conspiracy loons. Just because you trust them doesn't mean that's a common feeling.
It's me
More seriously, what's far more important than "signal boosting" someone who's universally trusted (which I'm not even sure is a desirable trait per se — a lot of people have historically gained a ton of trust but were evil) would be radically changing the media organization and structure away from a model of corporate ownership so that the media *writ large* is more trustworthy. Any particular "trusted" figure in American media today is necessarily beholden to this model, a model which I perceive as horrible. I guess I see OP's suggestion as a particular flavor of hero worship which is something I'm generally averse to
And yes this sentiment only applies to media figures but given the nature of contemporary partisanship I don't know what a universally trusted politician could even look like. I'm certainly dubious of the notion that such a politician would necessarily be good; I suspect they would be bad
More seriously, what's far more important than "signal boosting" someone who's universally trusted (which I'm not even sure is a desirable trait per se — a lot of people have historically gained a ton of trust but were evil) would be radically changing the media organization and structure away from a model of corporate ownership so that the media *writ large* is more trustworthy. Any particular "trusted" figure in American media today is necessarily beholden to this model, a model which I perceive as horrible. I guess I see OP's suggestion as a particular flavor of hero worship which is something I'm generally averse to
And yes this sentiment only applies to media figures but given the nature of contemporary partisanship I don't know what a universally trusted politician could even look like. I'm certainly dubious of the notion that such a politician would necessarily be good; I suspect they would be bad
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Well there it is.
Also anyone saying any Democratic politician or even vaguely liberal speaker is out of their minds lol
Tom Hanks has been catching Q heat since he caught the virus too way back when iirc. Something about him being another crisis actor the "conspiracy" they believe covid is.
In terms of general humanity and social etiquette? I can only think of actors:
Tom Hanks
Keanu Reeves
Morgan Freeman
The Rock
They all seem like really good, genuine, down to earth people, and pretty much everyone likes them.
In terms of politics and government stuff? I don't know TBH. Obama is still THE MAN I guess.
Tom Hanks
Keanu Reeves
Morgan Freeman
The Rock
They all seem like really good, genuine, down to earth people, and pretty much everyone likes them.
In terms of politics and government stuff? I don't know TBH. Obama is still THE MAN I guess.
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Personally from living Americans, I'd trust Noam Chomsky. But many definitely have rather visceral reaction to him, so he's not the answer to your question.
That's exactly why he can be trusted!
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Tom Hanks, love that guy.
Real shame that the right is trying to propagate BS about him being a pedo. Every single comment section with Tom hanks now has it.
Real shame that the right is trying to propagate BS about him being a pedo. Every single comment section with Tom hanks now has it.
