According to phys.org: '"The decline of public trust in political authorities is central to the challenges facing democratic governments in many countries today," says Dr. Viktor Valgarðsson, lead author of the study from the University of Southampton.
"Low political trust tends to be associated with support for populist parties and leaders who rail against the political establishment. It also makes it harder for governments to respond to crises such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.'
Trust in political authorities is declining in democracies, because people know that the authorities are conspiring against them. Most representative democracies are also plutocracies or aristocracies. The biggest democracies like India and USA have also been with a ruling elite, aristocracies, and with India getting rich with billionaire businessmen and crony capitalism, and USA being run by billionaires, with the influence of tech billionaires – they are both also plutocracies.
Most democracies are representative democracies. Direct democracy has only been successfully implemented in a few small countries, like Switzerland, where there is high trust in government. And the Scandinavian countries have trust in political authorities, allowing them to successfully implement big government, with low inequality.
Democracy is explained to be the best system, among even worse systems. But democracies are turning autocratic in countries like USA and India. I would prefer neoliberalism to autocracy. The solution I like best is a meritocratic democracy, like they have in Singapore. Preferable to an aristocratic or plutocratic democracy.
There definitely is a conspiracy among the political authorities to mantain the status quo of representatives democracy, trying to hide the fact that they are also plutocracies or aristocracies.
Reference: https://phys.org/news/2025-02-democracy-crisis-democratic-declining-world.html
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Once you realize that you have been lied to all along, you notice it everywhere in the media, in what the goverment says and does. You simply cannot unsee, once you have become aware of it. Just as an addition, I’m not american – this has nothing to do with the rep/dem stuff.
At the same time it is depressing to see the part of the populace which is still despite all that has already happened in the majority who believe everything is fine and in good order. These people are in denial whenever confronted with reality and treat whoever hands it to them as an enemy.