> Deception of the public is a bipartisan issue because it's an issue of holding/maintaining power.

And maybe it's because by and large Democrats are completely incompetent when it comes to holding/maintaining power but I cannot remember a time when Democrats were purging information from government websites like we are currently seeing. Saying it's a "bipartisan issue" does not hold water. I'm sure there are instances where Democrats have done something like this (I should make it clear I am not a fan of them, I just find them the lesser of two evils) but nothing on the scale we are currently seeing.

Everyone else has already jumped on this post but I cannot stress enough how toxic the mentality "everyone does it" is.

Not everyone does it, and people certainly don't do it to the same degree, and when we vote we can actually choose better people. Not perfect. Just better.

This can’t be generalized beyond the US government, though. I live in Switzerland and have a lot of faith in the Swiss government.

> All politicians, and the groups they control/communicate with, can't be easily trusted

This is bullshit. The American bureaucracy has been ridiculously reliable as an information source until tight around now. (Same as the British imperial services’ were.)

This baseless cynicism is a driver around why we’re losing that. (More specifically, the blog posts being disappeared aren’t impartial data. They’re the historic opinions of the previous FTC chair.)

> History (including recent history) says the leanings of political party of the administration in charge are unrelated to how truthful the government communication is.

If anything, recent history says the exact opposite: truthfulness has absolutely varied historically based on the person in charge. The current person in charge has a record of untruthfulness unrivaled in magnitude by any of his historical predecessors. It isn't even close.