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I just feel, personally - for myself mind you - that I have a role to play in the division of labor that does not include intense scrutiny of the things that are done by my government. I am an engineer and an artist. I don't expect my government to pass all of my personal tests for perfection in execution, nor do I expect to be fully informed on matters that other people are elected and appointed to execute. My experience living in this country and my non-professional reading of history tells me that I can place my faith and trust in my government. That does not include an expectation that everything it does will be perfect.
I'm intentionally avoiding point-by-point disputation here because I feel that this is a character issue and an issue of human values. I'm quite aware that such terms are not part of the modernist or post-modernist cannon.
I believe the kind of mistrust of good government that is so fashionable in the population, as a result of many factors, is deleterious to our overall ability to feel united as a people and as a nation. It may very well have the effect of rendering us unable to execute strategy or warfare effectively.
I see mistrust of government run amok. It's an epidemic and if you don't see it - that's because of how you choose to look at things and how you have been programmed by forces that can render you as simplistic as you accuse me of being.
What we're running up against here is a clash of values. That's why I brought it up and that's why I have chosen to discuss it the way that I am. All of your comments are very welcome and do illuminate the issues well, I think.
I'm looking for your views. I'm not looking to debate those views. As I stated, they are a matter of how you conduct your life. I choose to conduct mine with a healthy respect for and trust in the U.S. Constitution, the system of government, and custodians that issue from it. I have seen nothing that would cause me to approach it with mistrust.
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