Why do Americans distrust government?

because every govt wants to take away guns from their population

That’s why

:D wrote:

because every govt wants to take away guns from their population

Because they idolize Donald Trump and his family, who ironically enough make up a lot of the government administration.

It’s a weird deal, mostly they just like claiming victim hood where none exists.

Because democrats suck wrote:

That’s why

The government are REPUBLICAN, try to keep up.

serter wrote:

I have heard that Americans distrust government. Why is this exactly?

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I mean in the legacy sense. It goes way back. Is it possible that the way the government is structured naturally leads to abuse? A government employee can not be fired like a private employee. So they don't have to be competent, thrifty and can do what they please without much recourse.

serter wrote:

I mean in the legacy sense. It goes way back. Is it possible that the way the government is structured naturally leads to abuse? A government employee can not be fired like a private employee. So they don't have to be competent, thrifty and can do what they please without much recourse.

Why didn’t you just push the narrative you wanted from the get go? Without trying to wrap it up in a question that doesn’t really work since the same people also idolize Trump.

Last 4 presidents:

"Read my lips: no new taxes" ~ George H. W. Bush

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman." ~ Bill Clinton

"Operaetion Iraqi Freedom will be a cakewalk, we'll be greeted as liberators, and we'll be out of there as fast as we were in the first Gulf War." ~ George W. Bush

"If you like your private health insurance, you can keep it, and you'll even see your premiums drop." ~ Barack Obama

jamin wrote:

Last 4 presidents:

"Read my lips: no new taxes" ~ George H. W. Bush

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman." ~ Bill Clinton

"Operaetion Iraqi Freedom will be a cakewalk, we'll be greeted as liberators, and we'll be out of there as fast as we were in the first Gulf War." ~ George W. Bush

"If you like your private health insurance, you can keep it, and you'll even see your premiums drop." ~ Barack Obama

Have there been any lies from the current President in the last three and half years?

"Why didn’t you just push the narrative you wanted from the get go?"

I want to hear a good reason why it is that Americans are distrustful. Yes, the top leaders have lied, or it seemed like lies, but are there any other reasons that are not too well known?

I moved from a fairly liberal state to a conservative state and I hear things in public that are very different then what I am used to. Just the other day someone in the supermarket was complaining that the government has no right to require businesses to close. That kind of speech, free speech mind you, never happened where I used to live.

Cool story bro, hopefully you’ll get to the bottom of it.

"Cool story bro, hopefully you’ll get to the bottom of it."

I don't see why I can't.

Because so many Americans think this guy was their hero.

https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/reagan-quotes-speeches/inaugural-address-2/

For centuries people have opposed governments especially those that are oppressive.

An example I can provide from Ancient Roman history is the Emperor Augustus whom is often depictsled as his somewhat more Hollywood famous relative Julius. Augustus was either the nephew, great nephew or fourth cousin of Julius. Both members of the Octavian family.

Most of what we understand of the Roman Empire comes from its third period - The Roman Empire. Augustus was both cunning and benevolent but one thing is for sure and that is he got sh!t done. The Roman Empire was both an aristocracy and a Senate as of the second period - The Republic. Augustus was integral with the construction of Rome and the theme he carried was that of war mongering "avengers". Inside the city, for example, he constructed a Temple of Mars to symbolically represent that Avenger theme. At the top of the temple was Mars on a Chariot.

But the god whom was their elite was actually Apollo and his temple had been there since maybe the 5th century B.C. There is also a Pythian temple of Apollo in Greece where people had epiphanies they called oracles which was a message from the gods. In any case, Augustus, via Suetonius, is said to have envisioned a Rome guided by an Apollo commanding a twelve horse chariot which is ball park for a 120-home run season in baseball as guiding a 4 horse chariot (quadrigae) was the most difficult of chariots to steer in chariot racing. There were also bigae and trigae chariots.

So for one of their equivalent halloween and costume themed parties Augustus dressed up as Apollo and had some type of presentation with twelve horses that rendered very poorly in front of the people. They mocked him.

Augustus also led a senators wife to a bedroom during the middle of dinner.

It all comes down to control, limiting freedoms, taxation without representation, distrust, observing authoritarian / totalitarian behavior, simple arrogance, and maybe even parental influence whom were also upset by government. Think of that last part traveling from generation to generation sort of like an income hypothesis effect.

The gov't wants to control you and take as much of your money as they can. Career politicians, when losing an election, go to work for large corporations who will help them get elected the next time so they can legislate to help their previous employers. Pretty sure most of the politicians eat here on a regular basis.

https://www.ruthschris.com/restaurant-locations/washington-connecticut-avenue/

Corporations want a weak government so that they can flout the laws and regulations to increase their profit margins.

Republicans want a weak government so they can steal money and power.

They work together to undermine the American government.

People think the government is bad because of a decades long propaganda campaign brainwashing the deplorables into believing in things that are not true.

Or maybe Hillary really is dying of alzeimers parkinsons dementia and did sell all our uranium to russia while running a satanic child sex ring out of the basement of a pizza shop and Obama is a kenyan born america-hating terrorist-loving marxist communist gay-married secret CIA agent who teleported to mars and occasionally wears a tan suit.

Thanks to Trump we no longer have to worry about life altering things like that.

If you are asking about the United States, consider the anti-establishment nature we were founded.

"Faetus of a monarchy" - Edmund Randolph

"Barefaced falsity" - Thomas Paine

Reducing possibility of "single faction majority" - James Madison

These were all significant voices between 1776 and in particular James Madison's assertions to have multiple factions instead of zero has grown exponentially to now where everyone has a hostile effect toward government. One side of academia argues that America is what it is because of "skepticism" in their approach to government rather than unity or belief. There is also a different branch suggesting people turn to politics as they would sports to "release pent up energy" but differentiate from sports because there is a different formation of that intimate connection.

Plato Laws, 346d suggests that inside people are inner children at play with persists with us here at letsrun especially. We are fans of the sport because it connects to our inner child at play and becomes a pastime.

Political viewpoints and relationships with government are different formations. We in the U.S. traditionally base our relationship with government on our parents relationships but are also politically socialized by other institutions: school, work. We still hold it close to us, like sport, but our behaviors and attitudes toward it are more learned behaviors than something we acquire individually. Not 100% permanent transitions through ancestry but like, compared to your great grandpa - 95% of your dad who was 95% of his dad who was 95% his dad - so like 81% of how your great grandpa responded to government is inside you.

Put that on a timeline and if your great grandparents were devastatingly poor during 1928-1932 or your grandpa was in Nam during a disillusionment period of young people who were frustrated by the Nixon (culminating in 72 Watergate) or you lost an uncle in Desert Storm or you have student loans from 2008 you cant repay, that definitely will skew your belief system and you will take it out on government.

Because it's full of people who think they should run my life - and I shouldn't.

Because Bush did 9/11.

So that the U.S. could build their trans-afghanistan pipeline and steal oil from the caspian sea.

No airplanes hit the towers on 9/11, those were holograms.