Why We Keep Getting Awful Politicians
<p>Forget bankers, lawyers, and traffic wardens — if there is one profession the public loves to hate, it’s politicians.</p>
<p>Recent <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/06/06/americans-views-of-government-decades-of-distrust-enduring-support-for-its-role/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">research</a> shows that some 65% of Americans believe that politicians only run to serve their own interests, and just 20% trust the government in Washington to ‘do the right thing just about always or most of the time.’ Things don’t look much better across the Atlantic, with only around <a href="https://fullfact.org/media/uploads/political-trust-in-the-uk.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">19% of the British public</a> saying they trust politicians to tell the truth.</p>
<p>Chances are, none of this comes as any surprise to you. Terrible politics and woefully incompetent politicians have, inexplicably, become a normalized part of our culture. And nonsense policies, shameful behavior, and stupidity seem to simply be a part of the political process.</p>
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