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Some stupid new Pew poll shows that 80% of Americans distrust the Government, especially Republicans. All I can say is that it’s about time, it should be 100% don’t trust the Government all the time. I’m not saying that the Government is planning to abduct you to perform mind altering experiments on you to make you think that you’re a gerbil bent on happily paying taxes while being tracked by satellites through a tracking device implanted as a filling in your tooth that you got when you were 14… I’m just saying that you should never trust an authority to the point that you’re not questioning them and watching them. I’m also not saying that we should all rise up and take back the Government from the majority because some tea baggers think they know better than every one else. I’m saying prevent chaos by being skeptical.

You’ll notice that trust in the government almost consistently goes down when a Republican is the president of the country but goes up every time a Democrat is the president. I like how people distrust Republicans, I just think that the distrust should be equally applied to Democrats as well. Of course the problem here is that we don’t know the question that was asked of the people. If the question was, “Do you trust the Government to X?” it would mean something completely different than if it was, “Do you distrust the Government?” This is why I don’t like polls, especially polls that do not publish the questions asked and the raw stats (sans certain information that is not needed) for how the questions were answered. Sorry, my distrust is not just for the Government, it’s for everyone. It takes evidence to convince me that you’re telling the truth… at least when it matters.

A good measure for how cautious you should be in trusting something or someone is to determine how many chances you will reasonably have to fix it if something goes wrong and how much problems being wrong about trusting them could happen. If someone tells you they ate a swordfish sandwich for lunch, the consequences of trusting them are so minor that you can just trust them without a worry. However if the person is running to take the responsibility of representing you and thousands to millions of others in the U.S. Government, the consequences of trusting them are much more major and the chances to correct your mistake of voting in the wrong person are slim to none, so you should make sure that you are very sure to only vote for the best option. And whether you voted for the guy or not, you watch them like a child… because most of the time, they are.