All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer Today, I was reading some writer's account of how Americans no longer trust their government. According to her, this has led to our high covid death rate and our low vaccination rates. She cited a Lancet piece. To this I say two words. No shit. You see, I don't know how old the author is. Perhaps she has not lived long enough to see the cumulative effect of being told lie after lie after lie for 60 years.  Hundreds of huge lies. Like the Federal Reserve Bank, the assassination and cover up "investigation" (complete with sealed records) of a US President, the Gulf of Tonkin, the alleged gold in Fort Knox nobody has seen for 50 years, oil shortages, free trade agreements which ruined our economy, and hijacked elections. Thousands of small lies whispered in our ears about US banking fraud, healthcare, inflatio...