Losing the Trust of the People You Need Most

For a long time I have been blogging about how the loss of faith in our institutions is the biggest threat to the American nation.  This is a problem for young people in part because it is only people that believe in America that are going to invest in America.  I use "invest" not in terms of $$$s but investing their lives for the betterment of the country--police, military, firefighters, dedicated public servants, entrepreneurs, volunteers, etc.  If none of us invest ourselves, American becomes hollowed out.

A brilliant essay by Darryl Cooper (a/k/a) lays out how the FBI and the corporate media have abused the trust of Trump supporters.  This is a dagger at the heart of our country because these are precisely the same  people that are the ones that invest their lives in America.  As Cooper puts it:

It's hard to describe to people on the left (who are used to thinking of gov't as a conspiracy... Watergate, COINTELPRO, WMD, etc) how shocking & disillusioning this was for people who encourage their sons to enlist in the Army, and hate ppl who don't stand for the Anthem. 13/x 
They could have managed the shock if it only involved the government. But the behavior of the corporate press is really what radicalized them. They hate journalists more than they hate any politician or gov't official, because they feel most betrayed by them. 14/x 
The idea that the press is driven by ratings/sensationalism became untenable. If that were true, they'd be all over the Epstein story. The corporate press is the propaganda arm of the Regime they now see in outline. Nothing anyone says will ever make them unsee that, period. 15/x 
This is profoundly disorienting. Many of them don't know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know for absolute certain that the press, the FBI, etc would lie to them if there was. They have every reason to believe that, and it's probably true. 16/x 

Millions are and will continue to ask whether this is the types of country that they will invest themselves in or encourage their children to do so.  Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Corporate Media, Big Tech etc. have done tremendous harm to this country by sowing distrust and outright lies.  The losers of course are young people who will increasingly live in a country that fewer and fewer are are willing to invest themselves in.