Poll: Founding Fathers furious at way government turned out. (Screenshot)

A nationwide poll reveals that four of five U.S. adults say the nation’s founders would be upset by the way the government has operated over the past decade.

“Fully 81% of the public thinks that the founders of our country would be upset with the way the institutions of our government, such as Congress and the presidency, have been working over the past ten years, Monmouth University Polling Institute said Thursday, announcing its findings.

Only 11% feel our Founding Fathers would be pleased with what’s become of the government they created, the survey shows.

Americans seem to think the founders are actually “turning over in their graves,” Monmouth Director Patrick Murray says:

"There was a time when the vast majority of Americans would brag about our system of government and how other countries wanted to emulate us. This source of pride has been slipping away. In fact, many seem to feel that founders like Madison and Hamilton may be turning over in their graves when they see how Washington operates today.”

Just half of Americans feel that our system of government is basically sound, down from 62% who felt that way in 1980.

The Monmouth University Poll was conducted by telephone from December 10 to 12, 2017 with 806 adults in the United States.