Regardless of the factual nature of Epstein conspiracy theories, Americans no longer have even a base level of trust in our institutions to not betray the public interest in defense of a corrupt global elite.
Having over decades observed the many failures, purposeful and accidental, of our previously trusted institutions, Americans are now convinced these entities are corrupt or easily corruptible.
These institutions have become brittle. They have to succeed at a much higher rate or risk being viewed as instruments of failure in the minds of the citizenry. We become more and more a nation where the masses do not trust the large entities to handle, well, anything.
The National Conservatives of our age like to warn against becoming Europe, but the reality is that we are becoming more like Mexico: a nation where the mob can only appeal to a newly empowered individual to solve all that ails us.
“We Mexicans do not believe in liberalism as much as in Juárez, in order and progress as much as in Porfirio Díaz, in land reform and in the labor movement as much as in Zapata and Cárdenas...
"and liberalism, order and progress, democracy, land and labor reform do not exist if Juárez, Díaz, Francisco Madero, Emiliano Zapata and Lázaro Cárdenas do not exist.… In Mexico the adhesion to a caudillo is adhesion to a man, not a myth." - Jorge Portilla, in the late 1940s
It is rational to distrust our institutions. Only the irrational or the company man would claim to trust them after all we have seen of their texts, their tweets, their messages. We know them for what they are. And we know we cannot trust their plans.
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