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Rights, Privileges and Knowing the Difference !
Republican Daily News ^ | 04/02/03 | Paul Walfield

Posted on 04/05/2003 4:57:49 AM PST by political_chick

Lots of folks, well some anyway, have a tendency to distrust their government. In democracies they elect people they like, or the "lesser of the evils," then spend the rest of the election term, being skeptical. People who are skeptical by nature, those who voted for the other candidate, speak the loudest, but even the ones who elected the government have a tendency to give credence to the idea that if they trust their government, they are somehow leaving a door open to disaster.

For about three decades now, the trend has been increasing......

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1 posted on 04/05/2003 4:57:49 AM PST by political_chick
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Perhaps if the fedgov hadn't proved itself to be dirty, corrupt, and incompetent so many times, people would have more trust in it. Even when government waltzes forward to do good and be just, without any hidden agendas (that anyone can find), it fails in the long run.
2 posted on 04/05/2003 11:04:53 AM PST by Indrid Cold
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