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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPoll: Americans view US as declining power; want greater role in global economy.
Growing numbers of Americans believe that U.S. global power and prestige are in decline. And support for U.S. global engagement, already near a historic low, has fallen further. The public thinks that the nation does too much to solve world problems, and increasing percentages want the U.S. to mind its own business internationally and pay more attention to problems here at home.
Yet this reticence is not an expression of across-the-board isolationism. Even as doubts grow about the United States geopolitical role, most Americans say the benefits from U.S. participation in the global economy outweigh the risks. And support for closer trade and business ties with other nations stands at its highest point in more than a decade.
About half of Americans (51%) say the United States does too much in helping solve world problems, while just 17% say it does too little and 28% think it does the right amount. When those who say the U.S. does too much internationally are asked to describe in their own words why they feel this way, nearly half (47%) say problems at home, including the economy, should get more attention.
But the public expresses no such reluctance about U.S. involvement in the global economy. Fully 77% say that growing trade and business ties between the United States and other countries are either very good (23%) or somewhat good (54%) for the U.S. Just 18% have a negative view. Support for increased trade and business connections has increased 24 points since 2008, during the economic recession.
http://www.people-press.org/2013/12/03/public-sees-u-s-power-declining-as-support-for-global-engagement-slips/
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Poll: Americans view US as declining power; want greater role in global economy. (Original Post)
pampango
Dec 2013
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TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)1. Two very long wars will do that. Americans are no longer interested in
spreading freedumb-n-democracy--we've swung from neocon hubris to fetal-position isolation in just a few years. Neither is good.
msongs
(67,395 posts)2. greater role in economy? Start buying stuff made in the USA instead of China nt