Can a Republic Survive Without Trust? Guest post by Linda Brickman A Republic is not held together by laws alone. It is held together by something harder to see and harder to replace — the belief shared among millions of citizens who have never met, that the system they live under is honest, that its rules apply equally, and that those who administer it can be trusted to do so faithfully. When that belief holds, democracy functions. When it erodes, everything else becomes harder. The question before us today is not simply whether trust has declined — it has —… — Source: The Gateway Pundit – Read More
