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The data disagrees with your first statement. Certainly true since the early 2000s, but we don’t have to be fatalistic about this. https://www.pewresearch.org/

• kortilla 5y ago
  “Trusting the government to do the right thing”, which is what that pew research is checking, is a constantly moving target. In 1955 when that trust was super high, everyone could have trusted the government to stay out of their lives and to only interfere if we had to go to war. That’s very different from people wanting the federal government to take over healthcare, energy, housing, etc.
  • Teknoman117 5y ago
    In 1955 needing to go to the doctor didn’t bankrupt your family.
    • tellersid 5y ago
      I mean really? In 1955 people were worried about a literal nuclear apocalypse. Of course health care was much cheaper when the doctor basically had no health care to give. A medicine man 2000 years ago was even cheaper, practically free.
    • N1H1L 5y ago
      For white suburban middle class it didn't. For black people it absolutely did.