Asklemmy

Here in Germany, a minority is, but most people I interact with are quite happy and trust the government. They do fear the right wing though.

It is not the government that is incompetent, that is an idea promoted by the right and the billionaires that fund both parties.

Why do so many Americans think the US has a huge crime problem? It is promoted by the same people. Statistics do not support it.

If you replace the government with nothing, you get nothing. If you replace the government with private sector, you get shit quality and less service at a higher cost.

So, take your pick.

Yes and no. Currently, a large portion of the small business owners are firmly pro-Trump, and a lot of wealthier dems are still hardline liberal democrats, but the working class does seem to be more engaged politically and rejecting the parties. It remains to be seen if they get suckered into electoralism again, or if we finally get organized as a class.

I'm pretty tired of the way EU works today, and needs a reformation to be taken seriously. The voting process of a union is just killing it, and there is no progress, when 1 or 2 nations can just veto against, and then nothing happens. This is apparently an "unforseen" - bug in the system. Which automatically should lead us towards federalising, and Saying: "Everyone who wants EU can join, everyone who doesn't, we'll still be friends and making trade deals, but you are no longer getting any of the sweet benefits from EU."

We got rid of PP (right wing) because corruption and now there's a ton of corruption cases from PSOE (left wing).

People is tired. Most street level conversations about politics lean towards a completely lack of faith in the current system overall.

Basically the only ones hyped up about their political option are the alt-right (because you know, nazis don't care). The rest of the spectrum just criticize other options but they don't really defend their own option as they know there's nothing to defend.

Australian here. It's hard to say how anyone feels because the media and major social media have been astro turfed so hard. But it's plain to see to everyone that neither side of politics down under is interested in changing the status quo.

I get the sense people are disillusioned and seeing through all the smoke and mirrors from all sides of politics, but it's just leading to cynicism and disengagement rather than alternative options.

I have been wondering if maybe the path to a Star Trek future lies in peacefully tolerating and co-operating with these "authorities" as they fade into irrelevance. We can build new systems of governance peacefully, slowly and meaningfully.

In theory the youth are, but in practice organizing seems to be more difficult and there is a lack of clear direction on how to improve things (ie: if everything is bad)

My government is good. Really good actually. But they're hamstrung by the voters being god-awful.

The media can't shut up about the corruption cases of PP (Montoro, recently) and PSOE (Ábalos and Cerdán until recently), which is inadvertedly pushing people to VOX (far-right).

I've got a job that interfaces with government employees, so I see a lot of incompetence.

I've also seen how actions have been made to improve over time and that a lot of the problems with some government agencies is just a staffing issue where they can't attract qualified people because the pay sucks.

What government?

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhh!!! -The Who (1971)

Nope. Not in the way you lay out. There is suck and there is SSSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice attempt at both sidesing. I'm assuming you're mostly focused on the us, so there is one party in power in all three branches of government and the other party has close to no power (the current shutdown demonstrates how the democrats are damned if they do and damned if they don't).

In terms of citizens, a broad portion of the us population has spent the last 50+ years hating the government, but now that it's small enough to fit in pants they seem mostly content.

Another broad portion has historically viewed government as trash but the only way to get things done that benefit the population. Since the government is now heavily focused on doing whatever it can to hurt the population (whether you're a farmer, immigrant, elderly/sick, or whatever, this government is actively trying to hurt you), that portion is now unhappy but with no realistic approach to solving it.

My perception is that outside of 20-somethings, people are more or less in the same bucket they've always been in. Nothing going on here is remotely new. I don't see any real change in people wanting anything other than the status quo.