Usonians

.... benefit the people behind them. Understanding what those people are trying to gain will tell you how much trust to place. A person donating money to a charity for tax breaks or good publicity can just as easily abandoned it if they see a better way to get those things or no longer need them. A person who seeks power for the sake of power can be counted on to act inways that display theor power conspicuously, that get them more power or help them keep power. So I trust my government. I trust that the original “keeping with the Kardashians,” a den of whores seeking attention and recognition, and who would suddenly loose all relevance and power without it, that those people will act accordingly. I trust that many have good intentions but may not align with my own, or may be compelled to do “small evils” as a compromise in service of their “greater good.” I trust that society place values on people and those seen with less or no value will be used and discarded as suits the people...

... with power over them. I don’t like it. I’d like it to change, but I also recognize it is the way of things. That is maturity. When you stop thrashing about pointlessly in outrage at things you yourself are culpable in and reconcile the fact that the world is full of things that are neither good or evil. That people’s motovations are often complex but we like to reduce them to binary concepts of morality. It helps to sleep at night when we can blame someone else for the atrocities done in our name which we benefit from all while decrying the very unsavory existence of it from comfort. So a government is not it’s people, but people are the government. I trust them as much as any other room full of strangers.