Who Do You Trust?

Do you trust your doctor?  I don't.  Unfortunately, the medical profession has been lying to the public ever since pandemic started.  I had to go to a medical facility to take my wife's sleep monitor back to the office to be confronted with a mask requirement to enter.  But we know, indeed have known for years now, is that masks do not work to stop the spread of respiratory virus.  But, they say we have sick vulnerable people coming here.  Yes, I understand, but going back to fact that masks don't work, why require them?  The again say, well people feel safer with masks.  Well, yes, they do because you told them they would be safer,  But why did you do that knowing that masks don't work?  Of course, the medical profession can not answer, so they constantly deflect.

Mark Landsbaum has an article at the American Thinker entitled The Problem of Trust that makes point that when the people lose trust in their institutions and government, things to not end well.

If you don’t trust a merchant, will you do business with him? If you don’t trust a lawyer, would you rely on his advice? If you distrust a doctor, would you let him operate on you?

Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas said out loud what should by now be obvious to everyone.

“I no longer have trust in the institution,” Thomas said of the high court after the leak of a draft decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

Thomas was appalled by the breach of the court’s tradition of keeping tentative decisions secret until they are released in final form.

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Any dispassionate assessment must conclude that what’s poisoned the high court to the point of being untrustworthy long ago spread to every institution in the land.

“Whom do you trust?” Make a list. It will be short, if you’re honest. Then make a list of the people, groups, and institutions you don’t trust. Not short at all.

The nation was founded on the idea of mistrust, which is why power was distributed over three branches of government, which were strictly limited in the things delegated to them. We tend to forget that the sovereign individual states created the Federal government, not the other way around. Somehow, beginning with the turn of the 20th century, the Federal government began acquiring power at the expense of the states, and as the 21st century turned, now at the expense of the people as well. The original plan had the House of Representatives directly elected by the people. The Senators were designated by the state legislators to represent the states' interest. The President was elected by the Electoral College. The plan was both elegant, and did indeed spread power among a wide variety of competing interests. We need to return to that set up.

When people are constrained by their overlords and can’t achieve their desires within the system, they either conform or change the system. How many of you are content with efforts so far to change the system? If you cannot trust that to happen, what’s next? In our radically polarized nation, what are the odds Republicans and Democrats can trust each other to give them a fair shake?

If Americans retain any of the stuff that gave our Founders backbone and courage, will there be civil disobedience? Revolution? Another secession by those who want to govern themselves, as did the colonists? Is it reasonable to trust in a more civil resolution?