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In reply to the discussion: My experience with Universal health Care [View all]mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)people think the government is the problem, but we are the government. Many Americans are against our government and don't trust anything the government says or does, even though government programs like Social Security and Medicare are very popular, the same people benefiting are the ones not trusting the government.
I honestly do not understand my fellow citizens or where we went wrong. I think Americans were much more involved while I was growing up in the 60's and it looked like we were headed in a more progressive direction. Now we only seem to be able to distrust and hate each other. It's so depressing. My husband's relatives are very right wing and against any government social programs. They are fundamental Christians and their way of thinking is very narrow and bigoted, like too many Americans.
We have been seriously thinking about spending the rest of our retirement in Canada.