Sad and true.
The thing that really brings me down is that the respect that I had for congress, the media, the FBI/CIA/CDC/most of the pseudo-academic departments in our joke universities, etc. etc is gone.
I believe that the majority of Americans share this loss of respect for our institutions. This is akin, IMHO, to the death of a thousand cuts. Each cut can be handled. Many cuts cannot.
As it should be!
More and more people are coming to that point of view. I fell into it in the late 1970's. There are a handful of exceptions, Reagan comes to mind, but otherwise it is all rot and baloney.
I got my law degree in 1998 (second career), and by reading the cases cited, realized that courts are not to be trusted either. There is no rule of law, really. It's all dark.