Trust in our institutions is eroding rapidly.  Is it any wonder?  Yesterday Graham Platner dropped out of the race.  Something in our electoral system failed, deeply, for him to get as far as he did.  Whoever replaces him as the Democratic candidate will be the result of a process other than the one we expect – another institutional fail.  We saw the same fail in the last Presidential with the Biden/Harris swap.  How is it, in a free country, we keep getting dictated to?  What’s gone wrong when a regulatory state makes things grossly more expensive, but can’t keep us safe in the stands for a soccer match?  What we think we know, we don’t…justice seems impossible…media spews nonsense…our public servants turn out to be self-serving.  The evidence is strong that our lack of faith in institutions is well deserved.