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It's primarily trust, or lackthereof.

Some of its political, and some of its misinformation.

But mainly people think their governments are either being dishonest or incompetent, or some combination of both. I'll let you decide whether you think that's justified.

But my point is this, when you lose trust in the experts to tell you right from wrong, you will instead resort to making sense of the world by your own ability. Therein lies a whole class of problems that lead to conspiracies and alt remedies.



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