The Confederation is a huge society, and its not fair to lump everyone together. IS it odd that people wouldnt trust someone from a people who were constantly killing your people for decades for no real reason, with the cat your flying with being one of very FEW exceptions to the rule? No. In WC2 Tolwyn, Angel, Sparks, Downtown, and Paladin all trusted Hobbes. During the false truth, most of Confed's civilians were willing to trust the Kilrathi against all evidence to the contrary to stop the fighting and argued any other point of view was bigoted parania. In WC3 Rachel, Eisen, BLair, even Maniac, and again Tolwyn trusted Hobbes. All AFTER being betrayed by the entire race, and having several worlds wiped clean, and Earth heavily devestated. NOw lets talk about a people who betrayed humanity and ruthlessly attacked it Pearl Harbor style. Mass genocides and executions, years of fighting, constant sabotage from the inside, and probably a nasty propoganda machine blaming Pilgrims for every problem Confed had. YOur not going to find to many people who immeadiatly trust that. THen we have the Border Worlds. Even the military was split by that one, half the pilots including Blair hated having to fight them cause they had friends there, other memebers had family that lived there. Only when steered by Tolwyn did they think something was going on there. We only saw Senators who were vying for screen time and political power by backing the "cause of the moment". There may be bigotry, there may be need for revenge, but there is also alot of fairness and open minded.