@Captain_Fantasy ” want to believe in the good of people ” I know what you mean but I think most people are good or at least well meaning. I have found people at this site to be kind and mostly polite (I expect that some of that is due to the moderators). It seems that the meanest and most callous are at the highest levels of government and industry. You have to ask yourself why. I submit that they are a result of the “me generation” . They were taught that greed is good, capitalism is self correcting, government is bad, and rules are made to be broken. I admit that I thought this way on occasion. My breakthrough came when Reagen was elected and proceeded to support terrorists in South America, vastly increase military spending, and eviscerate the government.
There are millions of people in THIS country that think he was one of the greatest presidents.
I did two things to correct my attitude, I stopped going to church and quit the Republican party. All of a sudden I saw that we are a country with social obligation to our fellow citizens and no one organization had the sole responsibility for mandating what was good and evil.