"In God we trust, maybe, but not each other"

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In God we trust, maybe, but not each other

By CONNIE CASS, Associated Press

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/politics/article/In-God-we-trust-maybe-but-not-each-other-5023752.php

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Trust has declined as the gap between the nation's rich and poor gapes ever wider, Uslaner says, and more and more Americans feel shut out. They've lost their sense of a shared fate. Tellingly, trust rises with wealth.

"People who believe the world is a good place and it's going to get better and you can help make it better, they will be trusting," Uslaner said. "If you believe it's dark and driven by outside forces you can't control, you will be a mistruster."

African-Americans consistently have expressed far less faith in "most people" than the white majority does. Racism, discrimination and a high rate of poverty destroy trust.

Nearly 8 in 10 African-Americans, in the 2012 survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago with principal funding from the National Science Foundation, felt that "you can't be too careful." That figure has held remarkably steady across the 25 GSS surveys since 1972.



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1. That is was GOP "rugged individualism" really means.

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2. Exactly, they want to shut all out from each other. The GOP consists of a

bunch of sociopaths, and I really think this, look at them, they display all the traits of sociopaths, and the GOP has become a tent for them, Sociopaths United.

My god, just the GOP presidential candidates in the last election were clearly delusional and/or sociopathic. The only sane one was Huntsman, and they ran him out.

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3. Even the ones who are not sociopaths are using the tools of one.

That is what bunches of sociopaths do. They teach others how to behave in new and dangerous ways. Ways dangerous to the scapegoats which in this case is everyone except for white men it seems. Ways dangerous to a good society as the machine evolves to only serve the sociopaths at the top...which in this case are corporations. Even the poor white men who support the sociopaths in the GOP are having their lives diminished. Health care is good for them. But are they going to get it? Not if the GOP have their way.