The US Govt Happily Murders Political Opponents, Carries Out Bioweapon Attacks Upon The Population And Openly Steals Elections Not everything was sunny. We had problems that needed attention. That is the nature of human existence after all. But when Ronald Reagan said, Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem, we just thought he was promoting self-reliance and highlighting government inefficiency. As I said, we were naïve.
Along with that naivete, was a belief that our government would never intentionally harm us. It might be incompetent, but we didnt think it was malicious. Theories of vast government criminal conspiracies were considered delusional. Going to the police and claiming that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA (as Robert Kennedy Jr. is suggesting), would have gotten one labeled a conspiracy theory nut; and more likely would trigger a psych evaluation than a criminal investigation. That was the American worldview before Barack Obama.
Things changed in 2016 when the conspiracies stopped being secret. Government operatives decided they could work with a political party to stop an outsider from playing in their sandbox -- by any means necessary. The FBI, CIA, DNC, and MSM created the Russian collusion hoax to undermine Donald Trumps campaign -- but he won anyway.