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1. It's harder to build trust than to demolish it. Judging from the timeline, it would take about 2 decades like the 90s to rebuild the three sharp declines. 2
by high_5 3y ago
1. It's harder to build trust than to demolish it. Judging from the timeline, it would take about 2 decades like the 90s to rebuild the three sharp declines.
2. One could identify the sharp declines with significant events (Covid lockdown 2020, War on Terror campaign from 2003, but I fail to see what occured in the late 80s)
3. Still, there is an overall decline and I would look at the hierarchy of trust that exists in a society. Institutions are abstractions of different aspects of the living communities. But since individualism is rampant in our way of life, the whole chain of trust starts to slowly crumble.
- drewcoo 3y ago> I fail to see what occurred in the late 80s By the late 80s, the US gov't was finally acknowledging and trying to raise awareness about the AIDS crisis. '89 probably had a brief sigh of relief as the Berlin wall came down and the Cold war was clearly drawing to an end. On a positive note, the early 90s were the end of the USSR. But it also meant Bush the senior and the first war declared on former US puppet Saddam Hussein. It was the largest hot war the US had had since Vietnam and there were even rumors at the time of reinstituting the draft. Those things affected my confidence in the government at the time. I assume that the numbers are at least partially attributed to them.
- flyinghamster 3y ago> but I fail to see what occured in the late 80s * Savings and loan scandals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Scandals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Scanda... * AIDS crisis and government response: https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348/ronald-reagan-hiv-aids https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348/ronald-reagan-hiv-aids ETA: * Iran-Contra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair