Gallup: record number of Americans say Big Government is greatest threat to U.S. future

We know this is lost on the modern Democratic statist. But how this is lost on today's GOP, when they're in a perfect position to be the principled opposition, should tell you all you need to know about the deficits in initiative, motivation and integrity that the party is experiencing...

Gallup: Seventy-two percent of Americans say big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than is big business or big labor, a record high in the nearly 50-year history of this question. The prior high for big government was 65% in 1999 and 2000. Big government has always topped big business and big labor, including in the initial asking in 1965, but just 35% named it at that time.

Each party group currently rates big government as the greatest threat to the country, including a record-high 92% of Republicans and 71% of independents, as well as 56% of Democrats. Democrats are most likely of the partisan groups to name big business as the biggest threat, at 36%; relatively few Republicans, 4%, view big business as the most threatening.