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CMV: One cause of the crisis in modern western liberalism is the realization that many of the institutions are based on trust.

These are two thoughts which have been brewing in my head which I haven't had the real opportunity to have challenged.  

The first probably a more common thought that people are having and it is the more distressing.  All societies rely to a great extent on trust, but for a long time people in western nations believed their institutions and system where beyond this. We believed that we had created a system where more often than not people's self interests would force them to behave nicely.  The best example of this in modern society are the news sources.  In the age before the internet the lack of options made many people believe that the news they receieved everyday to be more often than not fact.  In the modern age peoplw can see a variety of different news sources saying vwry different things.  People have to then make a decision of trust.  They must decide which source is viable and which is hopelessly corrupt.  Now there is evidence to point towards some sources being more legitimate than others, but this is by no means deffinitly proven in a manner that makes it relatively easy for a regular person to know without extensive time invested.  

The big take away from this is not that their isnt a truth. It is just that people are realizing that they have to put trust in their news being truthful when before it was more assumed.  This allows people to choose their truth more than ever before and it seems apparent that people pick the truth that they agreed with before rather look for evidence.  

I don't believe this to be exclusive to the news, but in the interest of not making this 10 paragraphs long and will argue in the comments.   

Sorry for the numerous spelling errors.
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>  In the age before the internet the lack of options made many people believe that the news they receieved everyday to be more often than not fact

This is very false.  During Watergate, Nixon said that he was innocent and this was merely an attack by the "liberal media".  Attacking those reporting the story instead of the story itself goes way back.