Hate to break it to you…

If you don’t want to trust your government, you’re going to have to trust the people around you.

Not blind trust but earned trust. Trust built on shared mission, clear values, and mutual accountability.

This is the price of freedom: trading top-down authority for bottom-up responsibility. It’s messier, slower, and human… but it’s the only real alternative.

The hard part isn’t rejecting control. It’s building something stronger in its place.

How do you cultivate trust at scale? How do you protect it when incentives shift and human nature creeps in?

That’s the work. I believe we can do it here.