Bob Owens has an article up that addresses a huge issue that I believe has been growing unseen and uncommented on in the MSM.  That issue is the accelerating distrust of government, and especially the uniquely corrupt government of the Obama administration.

From the article:

Nevermind the appeasers–the IRS scandal IS a big deal. It’s such a big deal, it could ruin the agency forever, and take a few others down with it. And sure, it’s a lot of fun on the right to be clamoring for scalps–like, who should be fired and how many. But pink slips are small potatoes.

The end game is way, way bigger than that stuff. What we are witnessing is a collapse of trust in big government, which ultimately–to our benefit as small-government types–leads to a permanent undermining of the whole system.

Until now, this administration produced loads of soaring rhetoric that made many forgive its lack of substance. But now, to everyone who pays taxes, the wolf is suddenly at the doorstep, and it’s looking for food. This new era, for some, sounded great in the abstract–but with the IRS scandal, we’re starting to see our first home front casualties. The IRS just gave small-government America–which is most of America–a wake-up call like no other.

We’re at an unprecedented point in history. This current implementation of the federal government under the Presidency of Barack Obama and the Vice Presidency of Joe Biden are so obviously, incredibly, indelibly corrupt, that they’ve devalued the legitimacy of the federal government itself.

Folks, that is incredibly powerful for the cause of liberty. It is also incredibly dangerous until that liberty is reclaimed and it’s attempted murderers dealt with in a just manner.

 I say amen to all that.  We are all Wirecutters now.  The trust that has to be built up over decades has been squandered over the last four years, and especially in the last six months.  Such trust in the impartiality of government, and the belief that the government believes in the principles set forth in the constitution, and that it will abide by them whether there is someone looking or not, is leaving the majority of the people.  How government will ever reclaim this trust is unknown, but if it is even possible, it will only happen over a long, long time.

The immediate question, however, is whether the current government can function in the meantime, if the support of the people is gone.  A lot will depend on the next Congressional elections.