Record shares of adults say ethical values within the nation are tanking, in line with annual Gallup polling launched Friday.

Among these responding to the polling firm’s newest survey, 54% described the nation’s ethical values as “poor,” up 4 share factors from final 12 months. The earlier excessive within the annual survey, which works again to 2002, was 49% in 2018.

An extra 33% of respondents described U.S. ethical values as “only fair,” 10% known as them “good” and simply 1% used the phrase “excellent.”

“These ratings come at a time of increased gun violence in the U.S., rising reports of disturbances on air flights, altercations between attendees at public meetings, a continued decline in religiosity, and an increasing willingness among elected officials to enact laws to regulate abortion, transgender health care and sports participation, and gun ownership,” Gallup stated.

The pollster famous that the proportion of Republicans and Democrats calling the nation’s ethical values “poor” this 12 months inched up by two factors, to 74% and 38% of respondents, respectively. The share of independents saying the identical surged by seven factors from final 12 months to a brand new excessive of 51%.

“The increased negative rating of moral values is mostly owed to worsening views among independents,” Gallup stated.

The ballot additionally discovered that 83% of these surveyed stated ethical values within the U.S. are “getting worse,” up 5 factors from final 12 months and 16 factors from 2021. The earlier excessive was 82% in 2007. Only 12% stated ethical values are bettering.

Gallup famous that an occasional survey final 12 months discovered most respondents citing a scarcity of consideration in how individuals deal with one another because the nation’s prime ethical drawback. But Republicans had been equally more likely to identify a lack of non secular religion as their prime ethical concern.

Gallup performed a randomized nationwide phone survey of 1,011 adults from May 1-24. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 share factors on the 95% confidence stage.

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