> Isn't it debilitating to live in a place suffused with this opinion? Does it become self-fulfilling? One of the 2 major political parties in the USA has push

> Isn't it debilitating to live in a place suffused with this opinion? Does it become self-fulfilling? One of the 2 major political parties in the USA has pushed this opinion for as long as I’ve been alive. They deny federal government any opportunity to improve then point at government as an example of why it doesn’t improve peoples’ lives. I hope other still-functioning governments learn from the institutional failures of the USA in the 1970s and 1980s so as to avoid following the same path.