What Happens When Trust is Gone?

Not just lessened. Not just bruised.

Gone.

Completely broken.

For many - NOT just Republicans/Trump Supporters, but also Democrats, their trust in 'the system' - will NOT return.

That's a LOT of systems:

Police/FBI
City hall/Statehouse
Attorney Generals/prosecutors
Election boards/zoning boards, etc.
Party apparatus - sometimes, our own as well as our opponents
Candidates/officeholders
Neighbors - SOME of whom knew this was going on, or tried hard to pretend they didn't suspect
Family - who often accused one of being "Literally a Nazi"
Co-workers/bosses - may not have LED the charge to fire them, but stood by and let it happen
News media - paper/TV/social media

Where are we now?

COMPLETE breakdown of our formerly High-Trust Society. Not just by race/ethnicity/sex/religion.

We cannot trust MOST people. Those we MIGHT be able to trust, those whom we normally would be able to call upon - our closest family and friends - recoil from us as potential carriers of C-Death.

No, we will not just "come together", "heal", and play nice. For most of us, it's FOAD time. Our strongest expression of hostility is for the so-called Elites. They always hated and despised us.

We now return that contempt, with interest. If they were dying of thirst, I wouldn't spit on them. Or, waste any OTHER bodily fluids on them, either.

I don't see this changing anytime soon.

America is broken. It will take a LOT to bring us to a point where we will trust again.