“The United States is the only place we surveyed where more adults (ages 18 and older) describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad (53 percent) than good (47 percent).”
“Because we have never asked this question before, we don’t know whether a majority of Americans have long held a skeptical view of the ethics of fellow Americans, or if it’s something new – and if so, what’s driving it. But partisan politics appear to play a role. Democrats and independents who lean toward the Democratic Party are much more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to rate fellow Americans as morally and ethically bad (60 percent vs. 46 percent). And previous research has shown that rising numbers of both Republicans and Democrats say people in the other party are immoral,” says the intro to a new Pew research survey validating the moral superiority of Dems.