There has never, in my life, been a time that the government and the people they work for&#x2F;represent&#x2F;are have ever been more adversarial. When you realize government has stopped working for you and are actively treating you like a criminal, you ask who they <i>are</i> working for. It&#x27;s hard not to land on banks, corporations, and Bernie&#x27;s &quot;Billionaire Class&quot; - whether that&#x27;s true or not isn&#x27;t part of my point.<p>So it&#x27;s hard to &quot;trust&quot; in a single direction when the actions that cause distrust are so, so bald-faced. Every conspiracy-sounding theory surrounding surveillance has turned out to be true. And all that worry about being caught has had a net-zero effect. Maybe Let&#x27;s Encrypt was at least partially a result, but that&#x27;s about it. So why worry now? Turns out secret courts are just about guaranteed to green-light whatever the hell the NSA wants, so people finding out didn&#x27;t really turn out as badly as they were worried about.<p>So &quot;trust us&quot; is about impossible anymore. I don&#x27;t know if the relationship can be healed, to be honest. Obama was the ideal of our best shot, but that ship sailed like, day 2.