Look who's looking at the general and who at the particular.

The reason for falling trust levels in the state
are not rising abuse levels of that trust,
it's the deviation from the just balance
between control and power:
Mistrust is rising, because
firstly the potential for abuse is rising while
secondly the ability to punish it is falling
and the reaction to it is not fear of being betrayed,
but turning away in sardonic disgust.