27. October 2016

Many voters have no trust in the election nor in their government. Why should they? They have been dominated by a political-economic elite for generations. They know the system is rigged. They have been promised “Change!” for nearly forever. The “change” they has received has been in the form of lost jobs, homes, pensions, medical insurance, and trust in nearly every one of their authority institutions. While they are sick of things and are fighting back, the only legal and practical...

01. October 2016

New York Times columnist Roger Cohen articulates why Americans are in an "Age of Distrust."(See link below.) He knows that many Americans see the current system as rigged in favor of a political elite. Their role as participants in a democracy is bogus. The political elite no longer has the trust of the general public but that distrust has evolved now into revulsion and opposition, even if that opposition is irrational and counterproductive. This is true, not only in America, but in much of the...