Honestly, I got to the early paragraph where the author mentioned trusting government, and I was sad. Not trusting government is a great disadvantage to America in most times, but it's our great strength in the times it matters most, and I'm really afraid my generation has lost that thread. Government is great when it goes right, but it's a prisoner's dilemma with a strong bias against you when its wrong. The value of government can be huge, but it can just as easily screw you over, at whims driven by small scale petty politics. Government is great when working well, but the damage it does when not working well is worth avoiding giving it much power.