Lack of Trust in Believability

This past week, I listened to a discussion over believability.  It was a long piece, but they made this significant impression over the fact that folks today....just don't have much trust or believability in what they see or hear. 

You could have some Senator talking about some great 'evil', and just sit there grinning because out of his eight-minute hype....he probably made one single point of believability, and the rest of this was mostly all 'BS'. 

You could have some sports authority giving a big long talk on something, and by the end....you sit and analyze his commentary....coming to the position that 98-percent of his evidence is fraudulent or non-existent.

You could have some 60-Minutes 'talker' (I used to call their people journalists), who weaves up some story over nine minutes, and then you come to this opinion as the commercial finally comes up....it was all fake news. 

I think things went this way in the 1990s with President Clinton, and then went deeper into the pit of non-belief, with President Bush and President Obama. Even with candidates like Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, you got more or less a double-dose of non-believability. 

Trump?  In a way, he's functioning like Mister Haney from Green Acres.  Haney was a farmer, turned salesman, turned con-man.  He knew the art of sales, and could easily have sold you a mixture of good and bad stuff.  In this case, we are at least entertained by Trump, and often surprised that whatever he's selling....seems to be working.

Can America function in this landscape of disbelief?  I have my doubts. 

A large percentage of folks don't have much trust in the FBI, the State Department, the CIA, various religious groups, Judges, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Democracy, their local cops, or the banks. 

You have various HR folks within companies who are viewing the approaching 'snowflakes' coming in for interviews, and rate them as 'losers'.  Safe-space talk?  Blacks lives matter? Non-belief.

Newspapers, long saddled with the responsibility of delivering voters to certain political parties?  They are slowly dying off because the public seems to be in a period of non-believability.

The problem here is that you have a fairly dysfunctional political system in existence today.....with people in a state of disbelief.  Both political parties have worked hard to commit people to a landscape of non-believability.  Just the image of Senator McCain on a Sunday talk-show last year.....was enough for a fair number of Republican-voters to start laughing. 

This past week, with FBI-super-agent Strozek's performance, people fell into a pit of non-believability. 

Have we hit bottom yet?  That's the thing about it.....I don't think so.  And that might bother some folks....to think it's going to get worse.