Word: mistrustful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Simpson trial will likely go down in the history books under "African-American Mistrust of the Police in the 1990s," just above the Rodney King beating and just below the larger heading of polarized race relations in the 1990s. To prevent such a record from being written, we must take the trial and its trappings as a call to questioning: not just "Where were you on Oct. 3, 1995, at 1 p.m.," but "Where can we go from here...
...years or so, the two parties have been losing the grip they once had on the majority of voters. "People no longer care about parties the way they once did," says University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. "Seventy percent of the electorate is up for grabs." Voter mistrust of both parties is running as high as it was during Watergate-by some surveys, higher. That sense of alienation is coming not from the perennial malcontents of the left and the right but from the center. "The political debate has settled into two familiar ruts," Bradley told TIME. "Neither party...
...Mistrust of government is as American as July 4. Go down the Bill of Rights and you see protections enumerated to prevent the people's republic from degenerating into tyranny. You see a Constitution that divides its powers so that one would-be tyrant faces another in a competition that preserves the power of the electorate...
...opinion of many of the paranormalists, are engaged in vast cover-ups, keeping the public ignorant about the aliens who pilot UFOS, kidnap humans and create structures and monuments on Mars and the moon. "We make a lot of hay about the idea that there is a mistrust of government," admits Chris Carter, executive producer of The X-Files. "One of our mantras on The X-Files is 'trust no one.' I'm trying to entertain people in paranoid times...
These politicians and others drew on widespread mistrust and even hatred of government power in Western and rural areas. Their coalition included well-known elements of far-right thought: tax protesters; Christian home-schoolers; conspiracy theorists influenced by the John Birch Society's fear of one-world government; Second Amendment activists (mostly men) for whom guns are an important part of an independent way of life; self-reliant types who resent a Federal Government that seems to favor grizzly bears and wolves over humans on government land...