• coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        it's the deterioration of material conditions and the cancelation of the future

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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        7 months ago

        People have become a lot more aware of what their government is doing, rather than blindly assuming all is good based on things going well for them personally.

        • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          Seems like it's part this, and part the maturation of conservative anti-government rhetoric. A bunch of these folks don't trust the government because they think public school teachers are agents of Xi Jinping.

          You also probably have plenty of libs who don't trust the government due to beliefs like "if the government can do it, it can be outsourced to a startup."

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        7 months ago

        Hardly. "I don't trust the government to do what I want" is far more reflective of the general hysteria and nihilism that's come out of perennial mass media panics.

        We're not mature, we're just terrified.