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Originally posted by Dragonlich
I've always felt the US general distrust of it's government was rather excessive. Perhaps it's just a culture thing, something that grew from the US (anti-UK) civil war? I doubt you'd see such a level of mistrust in my country, for example.
Generally, I'd say that mistrust of the government comes from previous bad examples.
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I think (from my Poli-Sci classes) that this happened a little later. My profs always pointed to Watergate as the fall of public opinion of politicians. The true "end of Camelot"
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