The fall in trust of institutions has been the result of activists and manipulated twisting of consensus understandings.  In just the past decade we have risen (or fallen?) to asking "what is money?", "what is a woman?", and now "what is government?".  Each of those nouns have been perverted beyond what Miriam-webster had then defined them respectively as via consensus of the population by those who wield financial, social, and organizational power for their own gains.
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