Politicians Lie? Duh!!!

Ask someone walking down the street if their congressman lies. Go ahead, I dare you. You know what they will say? "Of course he does". Why is this? Well we could go back in history and blame Regan and Watergate, but we wont get into that now. What we will get into however, is how that mistrust affects you and me.
Ever since the dawn of the Cold War, Americans have been paranoid. Who is looking at my Facebook? What about my Instagram? Or worse, the conspiracy theorists.
So what does this mistrust do for us? To be honest, I would rather have an America that is mistrustful than one that is overly trustful. Here is my reasoning: an America that cannot be molded by a single person is a healthy America. In a world where the Nuclear Threat is a real one, I would rather not have a crazy dictator come to power through a democratic system. Of course, many will dismiss this as a crackpot over-dramatization, but i urge you to think about it. It could happen.
Okay, okay. It IS a little far fetched. But let us think about the opposite. Let us say there is no trust, like today. Everything is questioned, everything is out in the open. Isn't that an Aristotle quote? Hmm, must be. While this mistrust slows down the democratic system, it molds it, and prefects it. With out mistrust, there would be no self editing problems, or questions like , "what is really going on?"
P.S. This is the best i could do with how i am feeling, i may come back to this later to add more, but chow for now.