Name: FTI: Can We Trust Our Government Institutions?
Start: 2025-11-11T18:45:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-11T21:00:00-05:00

From Congress and the courts to agencies and local offices, government institutions hold immense power over our daily lives. Yet public trust in them has been declining for decades. What makes a government institution worthy of trust? What warning signs show if and when it is failing the people it serves?

This conversation invites us to look deeper into the foundations of democracy, accountability, and transparency. Together, we’ll explore whether our government institutions are living up to their promises—and what it would take to restore trust where it’s been lost.

A little about our host:

Garrett is a programmer turned award-winning software inventor turned entrepreneur ([[PlateRate.com](http://platerate.com/)]([http://platerate.com/](http://platerate.com/)) is his company). His hobby is writing and discussing practical philosophy, and he does life coaching on request to help people live happy, moral lives. He is also the executive director of The Free Thinker Institute ([[FreeThinkerInstitute.org](http://freethinkerinstitute.org/)]([http://freethinkerinstitute.org/](http://freethinkerinstitute.org/))), which aims to create a community that helps members increase happiness and decrease harm for themselves and those they can influence.

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