Think what you want to think about the reliability of polls. That’s your right.

But consider the finding of a Pew Research Center poll and reflect on if — and/or how — it applies to you.

The poll in question, which surveyed 8,709 adults in April, found 62% of U.S. adults saying they were worn out by so much coverage of the presidential campaigns being waged and the respective candidates.

Of course, having been conducted in April, the poll in question centered on fatigue that was in place months before election coverage escalated after President Joe Biden announced he was abandoning plans to seek reelection.

Also, that was before the Republican and Democratic parties held their national conventions and prior to the first assassination attempt on the life of GOP standard-bearer former President Donald Trump.

“The onslaught of political news comes at the same time that coverage of escalating global conflicts has intensified,” wrote the Wall Street Journal on Sept. 10.

The Journal said people have been left overwhelmed by all that is happening and the seemingly endless new developments related to them.

However, beyond the purported news fatigue criss-crossing America, there also is frustration and outright disgust about the conduct of some Americans reacting to what is happening on the national and world fronts.

There also is disgust and frustration regarding the disrespect being targeted at this nation’s present and past elected leaders — and the U.S. government in general.

A sickening situation is prevailing that no doubt is poisoning even the minds, attitudes and capacity for respect of many young Americans, and that is unacceptable.

The adult Americans responsible in part for the sickening situation need to wake up and realize that the negative conduct they are fomenting beyond their own lives and homes is dividing the country — undermining the national unity that should exist.

It is OK — proper — to express openly one’s preference regarding a certain candidate; that is part of the political process handed down from the nation’s founders. However, that should be accomplished within a spirit of respect for differences of opinion, which, too, are part of the foundation of making America strong.

People living under dictatorial strongmen do not have the proverbial window for open expression of one’s beliefs and opinions.

So, when you encounter a vehicle with a disrespectful or vile bumper sticker or other means of negative expression regarding government and those in charge — and you, unfortunately, will encounter such messages here within the Southern Alleghenies — know that it is within your rights, too, to display positive messages and expect that they be respected.

Probably better said, it is within your rights to expect those who disagree with your views to be adult enough, mature enough to allow those opinions to be displayed.

Meanwhile, employees of companies that depend on people of all personal, political and religious beliefs to ensure their profitable bottom line should exercise common sense and not display disrespectful, vile, controversial messages on their vehicles, if and/or when those vehicles are being used for company business — for obvious reasons.

The same is true regarding airing controversial TV programming in places such as restaurants, which people of different views and beliefs frequent.

Sixty-two percent of respondents to that April Pew poll indicated they were worn out, but perhaps a lot of the reason can be judged as what has been happening close to their home.