Trust, Democracy, Selfishness

Promise-breaking is often the occasion of Selfishness subverting Trust, suggesting a weakness in an influential premise of Hobbes'.  For, if, as he posits, humans are 'by nature' in a self-preservative state of universal mistrust, in the absence of another principle, they will not suspend suspicion to even contractually codify that condition.  In other words, even weariness of perpetual hostilities does not suffice for the grounding of a We on Selfishness.  Likewise, as current American political events tend to confirm, Selfishness corrodes the Democracy into which its advocates insist on being accepted as participants.  Kant might liken their self-defeating maxim to that of False Promising.