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The FederalistSalena ZitoOct. 10, 2016A string of homemade signs lines the highway in front of a small construction business in Rostraver, Pennsylvania. There are 17 in total, and they all reflect the owner’s loss of trust in the government, with their broad array of colorful and sometimes salty phrases. All are directly aimed at the government, not at a particular party.>A couple of months ago, Dagnes gave a talk at the local Rotary Club. Someone asked her, “How can we encourage young people to get involved in public service?”Her answer? “Stop telling them that the government is repugnant and full of crooks. That’s a start.”More... http://thefederalist.com/2016/10/10/will-americans-ever-trust-their-government-again/Government is repugnant and full of crooks.
OTOH, I've also worked with a lot of fine, honest people, that are worthy of trust and respect. The other 80% are just in it for the paycheck.
The same can be found in business organizations. The ones about to slide into oblivion. Decay is just the natural order of things.But good management can reverse the decay in a private organization. In government the decay is covered over with another layer of costly bureaucracy.
Government is a business organization with police powers and the power of life and death over its customers.
It's not "our" government.
What many have seemed to have forgotten is "We the People" ARE the government.
What many have seemed to have forgotten is "We the People" ARE the government. Unfortunately the tables were turned a long time ago and now things have completely spiraled out of control.
Seems to me, trusting government is the reason we are in the mess we are in.
Why would they have ever trusted it in the first place?
"We the people" really aren't the government; that is the whole point to a republican form of government. The Founders were extremely wary of popular government and demagogues - Trump would have made them vomit - and they purposefully designed a system where "We the people" were in charge of appointing the agents who ran the government for us, but were not actually able to run the government ourselves in any detail. Unfortunately, "We the people" have been gradually tearing that structure down and injecting more and more demagogy into the system, such as when the election of senators was subjected to popular vote rather than election by the state's own legislature.
I think another thing is now the Government dictates to the two main parties how to select their candidates. Where is it enshrined that a candidate has to be selected via Primaries? Political parties should be completely private entities with no direct government support or oversight. That would open the system up to other parties and at least give parties like The Constitution Party a fighting chance.
Agree.... in the same vein.... now we have a federal court ruling against Florida and ordering them to extend their registration deadline.
Will Americans Ever Trust Their Government Again?