The goverment is very, very good at bad PR. I don't think any institution in the world is as good at making people (who didn't previously care) hate them as the

The goverment is very, very good at bad PR. I don't think any institution in the world is as good at making people (who didn't previously care) hate them as the US govt is. Self-fulfilling prophecies, in a way. They think everbody hates them, so they react in a paranoid manner and violate the entire world's privacy and civil rights, and they're surprised (or feel vindicated, I suppose) when it is precisely that that makes people hate them.