Americans Forget They Are the Government

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The number is startling. Only 22 percent of Americans "trust the government in Washington almost always or most of the time," according to the Pew Research Center. "Trust in government rarely gets this low," said Andrew Kohut, the center's director.

This is a dangerous trend because it reflects our growing inability to trust one another, to work together to solve common problems.

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Americans Forget They Are the Government

Government is not them. It's us. Government is friends and neighbors, schoolteachers and firefighters, soldiers and social workers. And government is a tax-collection system that finances...

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