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US seems to be an exception in the developed world with such high distrust of the government. It's probably a self-fulfilling expectation: the government can't
by pornel 3y ago
US seems to be an exception in the developed world with such high distrust of the government.
It's probably a self-fulfilling expectation: the government can't be effective without trust. Without support, it can't pass strong regulations that make a difference. So you get an ineffective government, and watered-down lobbied laws that easily fall to regulatory capture, and you can say "told you so!"
- junofan 3y agoI guess, though there’s a lot more money at stake. The US federal government is probably the most powerful bureaucracy in human history (and certainly among the biggest). I trust my local and state governments way more. But I wouldn’t trust them to run the whole country. Scale seems to matter a lot.