Or so we imagine.

Maybe it's my imagination. But seems to me that far more many people live in fear today than back in the 1950s, when I was a youngster still growing up. And it was still a not-so-fearful society through the 1960s and into the 1970s. Maybe that's when the tide turned. We became less trustful of each other. And then the terrorists came along. Killing indiscrimiantely. Although at a much slower rate than happenstance of random murder on our nation's streets. Now I'm wondering if we check under our beds every night before we go to sleep. Fearful of the boogeyman. And the mistrust of each other seems to have become rampant. We don't trust our politicians. And probably for good reason. We've become a nation of liars and crooks and scaliwags. Or so we imagine. --Jim Broede