Today's fourth article of The Washington Post series on "The Politics of Mistrust" is: "Public Grows More Receptive to Anti-Government Message." The public sees the quality of life deteriorating or not improving from the 1960s, with family breakup, increased violence, a failure to produce better jobs, and, in addition, with the Cold War over, they don't see any real reduction in the risks of the possibility of a third world war. All this occurs at a time when taxes have been increasing. The small government, low tax environment creates a real opportunity for Republicans.... The general force of this sense of no progress is to favor the more conservative party. Next: Generation divide Series to date available at: http://www.replay.com/young/