That's basically what the original poster said - "Many Americans view our federal government poorly, on both sides of the aisle". I can imagine Americans of bo

That's basically what the original poster said - "Many Americans view our federal government poorly, on both sides of the aisle". I can imagine Americans of both sides don't see the parties as representing them. This seems to be a theme these days, no matter if the party in power is left/right/center, and it's not only contained to democracies either (it's pretty clear by now that turkish and russian folks aren't happy w/ their dictatorships either, for instance). It somewhat feels _distrusting centralized forms of government_ is the (new?) trend?