Nearly everyone, if not every single person, in America that will read this has never seen our government and politicians do ANYTHING that would advance the lives of its citizens, no matter how small the action might be. When/if anything slightly beneficial is done, cynical ulterior motives are the reason.

This mentality is actually part of the problem: the right-wing talking point that governments never ever ever do anything good. See the Reagan quote about “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” It’s demonstrably untrue and we shouldn’t fall into reinforcing it from the left.