Michael A. Kalm: Americans must shake the idea that government is their enemy

If you have ever done some hiking or camping in rural Utah, you have experienced a vast emptiness, filled with the soul-stirring quiet of the sounds of nature. In such an environment, it is easy to embrace our frontier myth of the rugged loner like Jeremiah Johnson, who lives by his individual wits and efforts and doesn’t ask for help from anyone — especially not from any government. In such an environment, it can be difficult to recognize that this great world we live on is actually