Conspiracy Realism.

[jaded]

Yeah right!

The Government will never do that!

Trust everything they say!

It's not that simple. 
Until a friend forced a book on me that covered multitudes of US screw-ups in WW2 an later, while not dumb enough to believe there was no governmental corruption, the magnitude didn't register till that book. Damned if I can remember the name!
People don't know what they don't know. Life now doesn't present the opportunities to gain the types of experience that leads to any kind of common sense or intelligence.