metalhead
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I'm not sure how much the Iraq War damaged Anericans' trust in government. The Republicans supported it to the end of Bush's presidency, whereupon they suddenly and collectively forgot it happened. I don't think you'll see much reflection and regret from rank-and-file Republican voters asking themselves how such deceit was allowed to happen. They just moved on immediately to "death panels" and "Kenyan crypto-Muslim communist seizes power."
yeah, lying us into wars has a somewhat diluted loss of faith in government because we dont find out at the same time whereas the financial crisis Lex mentioned hit us all more directly virtually over night
I mean these people also think our tepid financial regulation scheme is bad, cuz evil government. So I'm not sure taking the feelings of the most morally bankrupt 25% of the country as meaningful on this front is wise. These people also opposed creating additional money to lessen the effects of the crisis, so eff them.
I don't know if you really remember the protests against the Iraq war, but I'm confident in saying they dwarf any public action we saw in response to the financial crisis. I don't know that people even saw the financial crisis as mainly a failure of government. How many Americans do you think even know what Glass-Steagall is, let alone why it and many other regulations that were repealed over the years permitted the crisis to happen?
I think it probably had a large impact on people's attitudes about banks, but people have long been suspicious of banks. I'm talking specifically about loss of faith in public institutions. People having zero trust in banks and financial institutions is a good thing anyway.