2026-09-24 05:11 UTC
How does our political class defend itself?
Well, one way is to get friendly commentators (here Janan Ganesh/FT) to argue that the world does not have a 'Leadership problem', it has a 'followership problem'; rather than the calibre of our leaders declining, what has changed, he asserts, is the rise of voters unwilling to pay for the police's they vote for... leading to climbing public debt & fiscal problems.
Yup, its all out fault; those poor politicians, they're just helpless /s
#politics
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@gvenema@fairmove.net 2026-09-24 06:50
@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk I can't speak to this particular article, but it does strike me that the rot of democracy is best seen as a whole society issue. We can blame the people mongerers until Kingdom comes, and I know I do, but they work with what is there already. The lack of resistance to being mongered, the hunger to mobilize for a saviour, is what equally makes the thief. The success of neoliberalism, such as it is, made the field ripe for it. It destroyed the public good for "growth".