>but they need to trust politicians to actually produce results (and not get voted out next cycle).
Due to the lack of accountability of politicians and the greed of wealthy elites who own them, most of the democratic west became low trust societies, where people can't trust politicians to have their interest at heart anymore.
That's why you see people voting the most extreme and destructive anti-establishment candidates in almost every major democracy, because voting the least worst option as was the norm, simply resulted into a slow march towards feudalism: unaffordable housing, higher taxes, stagnating wages, decline in quality of public services, increased illegal migration, etc.
So why would people choose to vote for the same thing for multiple decades? That would be the definition of insanity.
> Due to the lack of accountability of politicians and the greed of wealthy elites who own them, most of the democratic west became low trust societies, where people can't trust politicians to have their interest at heart anymore.
That is the core problem of the United States today.
In a low-trust society, it's hard to do anything low-margin but useful. The overhead of hostile action makes it unprofitable. Yet most of the goods and services people really need are low-margin.
Due to the lack of accountability of politicians and the greed of wealthy elites who own them, most of the democratic west became low trust societies, where people can't trust politicians to have their interest at heart anymore.
That's why you see people voting the most extreme and destructive anti-establishment candidates in almost every major democracy, because voting the least worst option as was the norm, simply resulted into a slow march towards feudalism: unaffordable housing, higher taxes, stagnating wages, decline in quality of public services, increased illegal migration, etc.
So why would people choose to vote for the same thing for multiple decades? That would be the definition of insanity.