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RT Zarathustra (@zarathustra5150)A startling measure of how high-trust America once was, and how low-trust it's become (due in part to mass immigration): as recently as the 1970s, well within living memory, people commonly hitchhiked all across the country with total strangers, and didn't think twice about it.That level of trust is now so foreign to us that the thought would barely occur to anyone. And if it did, people would regard you as dangerously stupid for even considering it. ...