Silly me -- I view a decline in trust of institutions as a positive thing. We need a lot more of that.
*chuckle* I haven't trusted government or its institutions for
far longer than just the GWB years myself.
But then we haven't had a
properly-construed government---a government whose sole legitimate business,
other than protecting us from enemies actual or
provably iminent from abroad and predators at home (
realpredators, if you please, not mere vicemongers), is to
stay the hell out of your business, my business,
every person's business, until or unless one would obstruct or abrogate another's equivalent rights---for
several generations.