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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: RMF who wrote (43575)6/1/2010 8:01:48 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Merkel's party has problems (particularly in Barvaria, where they just lost a big by-election.)

I think that most *all* incumbents pretty much everywhere are in hot water in democratic societies as the public is forced to live through this horrible aftermath of the Global Financial Crash and the 'hollow' and unstable economies erected during the 'aught decade' after the turn of the century.

Publics everywhere are sour, sour, sour.

(I am getting traces and glimpses of the massive global disaffection that broke out in the Depression years between the world wars....)

Re: "I have the feeling that NOBODY loves their job more than politicians and being HONEST about finances and CUTTING people's benefits is the quickest way to lose your job if you depend on fickle voters."

Basic flaw in the system: politicians have little-to-no incentive to tend to the long-term health and well-being of their nations. All the incentives are short-term in nature ('next election' only), as it turns out, that is a bad, bad thing.
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