I could address that question with a broad brush and touch virtually everything.   The level of trust in anything the government has its hands in is visibly being reduced.  There are areas of governmental involvement in which the level of trust would have to be measured in the negative, because it is non-existent.  I believe it is justifiable.

I recently heard the assertion that Americans no longer trust the Healthcare System in this country.  I can believe that, on many levels, there are many reasons for the decline.  Most of them have been the result of flawed or failed governmental edicts or actions. 

A Gallup survey conducted last year asserts that Americans’ faith in major societal institutions has not improved and continue at the level of a significant downturn in 2022.  That survey reported that those with a ‘great deal or quite a lot of confidence’ in major institutions, including Congress, at 8%.  I am shocked that 8% have a great deal of faith in Congress or anything government. 

The survey revealed that 14% have confidence in big business and the MSM. The criminal justice system fared a little better, enjoying a 17% confidence score, and the Healthcare System was the strongest at 34%. All those are failing grades, as I remember from my school days. 

Not so long ago, there was a time when those in the Healthcare System (doctors and hospitals) were held in high esteem and respected.  Today, only one in three have confidence in them.  That is deeply disturbing but can be explained by simply reflecting on the actions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medical professionals such as Drs. Anthony “I am the science” Fauci and Deborah Brix contributed much to the decline in confidence. Regarding the COVID-19 edicts, only about 45% of Americans believe the experts were right. Of course, the divide was extremely partisan, with 73% of Democrats and 24% of Republicans believing the experts were right. 

With reports that the Biden administration may have actually been registering illegals to vote, the trust level drops into the black hole of distrust even deeper.  On March 7, 2021, President Joe Biden issued Executive Order No. 14019.  That order shifts the activities of the DOJ from its historical mission of law enforcement to arms of voter registration and get-out-the-vote operations.  That is beyond disturbing.  It is a blatant misuse of federal funds and is unconstitutional.  But when did the Constitution deter the Left?

He billed the Executive Order as an effort to combat racial discrimination and “protect the right to vote.”  He instructed government agencies to “consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.”  The order forces the U.S. Marshals Service to “modify agreements with jails” to provide those incarcerated with ‘voter registration materials and facilitate voting by mail.’  That is not legal per our present laws, but his E.O. does an end-run around the law.

This cause for distrust cannot be laid at the feet of the Democrats because some Republicans (RHINOs) have also contributed.  Former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney falsely framed or described former President Donald John Trump as the mastermind of the January 6, 2021, incident.

Cheney’s committee concealed testimony from former White House Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato. In his first interview with the House Investigators on January 28, 2022, Ornato testified that he overheard Meadows urge D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to mobilize as many National Guard troops as needed.

He also testified that President Trump suggested mobilizing 10,000 Guardsmen to keep the peace at public rallies and protests scheduled for January 6, 2021. He testified that the White House was frustrated with Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller for his slow deployment of assistance on that eventful afternoon.

Cheney and her committee kept that transcript from being presented publicly and sought to discredit Ornato’s testimony.  It appears that the former J6 Select Committee withheld Mr. Ornato’s critical testimony because it contradicted their pre-determined narrative to ‘Trash Trump.’

Cheney and her committee refused to investigate Nancy Pelosi’s opposition to additional Guard troops.  Pelosi indicated that she was concerned with the optics (how it would look) to have reinforcements at the Capitol after Democrats had condemned the use of federal troops in Washington during the 2020 riots. 

Let me offer this excerpt from Mr. Ornato’s testimony:

“Every time [Meadows] would ask, ‘What’s taking so long?’ It would be, like, you know, ‘This isn’t just start the car and we’re there. We have to muster them up, we have to’ — so it was constant excuses coming of — not excuses, but what they were actually doing to get them there. So, you know, ‘We only have so many here right now. They’re given an hour to get ready.’ So, there’s, like, all these timelines that was being explained to the chief. And he relayed that, like, you know — he’s like, ‘I don’t care, just get them here,’ you know, and ‘Get them to the Capitol, not to the White House.’”

Do we trust the government? How can we when they are more interested in solidifying their power and enlarging their purse than the Constitution, the rule of law, and the welfare of the American people? It is politics at its worst, and sadly, we have, for too long, allowed politicians to handle politics without giving the mandated Constitutional oversight our founders encouraged.

America, we can recover, but not without a unified effort of all freedom-loving Americans!  It is time to become involved!  

God bless you, and God bless America!