Moonglow
Diamond Member
That's because even in ancient times to the present, the clergy, the govt. and the elite suppressed people and made them peasants...and killed many people for monarchical or dictatorial rule...by despots..we have Bill of Rights because we didn't trust the govt to let us speak, practice our religion, or defend ourselves with guns.I trust my government to screw the shit out of me at every turn.
I trust Firemen and EMT workers. I trust most but not all police officers.
Firemen work for the government.
Some EMT workers work for the government.
All police officers work for the government....
Our country was based on distrust of govt because govt had been the source of evil in human history. And that was without seeing the great 20th Century liberals: Hitler Stalin and Mao.