{"id":28305,"date":"2017-11-25T13:27:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28305"},"modified":"2017-11-25T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T18:27:14","slug":"we-dont-trust-each-other-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28305","title":{"rendered":"We Don\u2019t Trust Each Other Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Don\u2019t Trust Each Other Anymore<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\"Trust_(466709245)\"<\/a>To channel Tina Turner briefly, what\u2019s trust got to do with keeping a nation?<\/p>\n

Everything, it turns out.<\/p>\n

Despite an uptick<\/a> over the past year, Americans\u2019 trust<\/a> in the key institutions is fading. Congress, big business, national news outlets, the criminal justice system\u2013the organizations that influence our public life most are those the least trusted.<\/p>\n

The presidency, now presided by over by the trash-talking and tweeting Donald Trump, continues to see its confidence rating plummet. The media\u2019s near-constant negative<\/a> reporting doesn\u2019t help Trump\u2019s image.<\/p>\n

Events in recent days are guaranteed to worsen domestic relations. Truth in character is a diminishing trait. Blame, as ever, lies on both sides.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post <\/i>columnist Michael Gerson\u2019s latest offering<\/a> highlights the abundance of lies coming from the White House. Everything from failed campaign disclosures to clumsy press hearing answers get Gerson\u2019s goat. A swamp scribbler par excellence, the Post<\/i> writer embodies establishment opinion on Trump. And while his criticisms are overwrought\u2014the Trump Administration no more frames facts to create a more favorable image than its predecessor\u2014they represent how many liberals view the President.<\/p>\n

Still, Gerson isn\u2019t all wrong. One of his targets\u2014Christian support for Alabama Senate candidate accused lecher Roy Moore\u2014is on the mark. The accusations lobbed against Moore haven\u2019t been fully verified, but it\u2019s hard to think so many similar stories would emerge, all depicting the same scenario. Moore hasn\u2019t denied<\/a> his predilection for minors, either.<\/p>\n

Moore\u2019s behavior doesn\u2019t automatically bar Christian support. But it should cause concern. Yet Christian evangelicals have embraced<\/a> the godly<\/a>judge even more since the allegations were put in print. \u201cMany of the people who should be supplying the moral values required by self-government have corrupted themselves,\u201d Gerson writes.<\/p>\n

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We Don\u2019t Trust Each Other Anymore To channel Tina Turner briefly, what\u2019s trust got to do with keeping a nation? Everything, it turns out. Despite an uptick over the past year, Americans\u2019 trust in the key institutions is fading. Congress, big business, national news outlets, the criminal justice system\u2013the organizations that influence our public life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28306,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28305\/revisions\/28306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}