I intensely dislike Ken Burns and the insufferable Peter Coyote, but it has been staggering to hear so many times, "I never thought my government would lie to me".  It still crushes to hear that.
As a Vietnam war hero has written many times, "that war was won by a peasant with an AK47 in one hand and a ball of rice in the other". Not lost to smelly, dopey, copulating hippies, or sleazy, self-serving draft-dodgers, busy with "more important things to do".
Politicians now know that we know they are lying. 
How bankrupt can a man or a woman, or an American citizen-voter get? 
That's our reparation for meddling where we were warned against by our fore-fathers.