re: When do you trust the government and why?

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This isn't meant as some gotcha or should be seen as anyway partisan.

My question is, what are your criteria for when you trust what they are telling you?

For example, some people immediately dismiss financial reports from government agencies, but they fully trust the military and what they are telling us.

Some people immediately disregard government agencies in regards to climate change, yet they fully trust the pentagon.

Some people distrusted the pentagon before, yet they fully trust them now.

Why is this? Why do certain agencies earn your trust, yet not others? Why did you disregard certain agencies before, yet believe them now?

The only agency I actually trust is the CDC. It appears to be the least partisan and the least influenced by politics.

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For the most part I don't think the stories are complete fabrications but I think there are big components of the story that are left out. What is left unsaid with most of the reports are our motives and long term strategies. Here is where most of the deception by omission takes place. We just assume that our motives are ernest and altruistic and as a result we become willing victims.