https://phys.org/news/2018-10-corruption-tops-5th-annual-chapman.html "More Americans are afraid than ever, "1. Corrupt government officials (73.6 percent)
notice that the objects under 'scientific study' aka american subjects are afraid of 'corrupt' agents, not of government per se.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance "All states except Hawaii, Iowa, Vermont and Wyoming require a regularly scheduled recitation of the pledge in the public schools" Abject forced indoctrination at its best.
And it would be pretty funny to find out what 'corruption' means to the fine 'scientists' doing the poll.
Polling their corruption? That of their procurers and funders? That would cause them to lose their government jobs. They would have to find true and marketable work for themselves.