“”What they have in common is this complete lack of trust in political parties and leaders,” says Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington think tank. “There is just this enormous discontent that leaders seem so disconnected from the people they represent.””
The swamp is everywhere!
The phenomenon is easy to explain. Everyone of us, including the politicos and bureaucrats, care first and foremost about our self interests. The power, the perks, the prestige the fame are the interests those people share in common regardless of party and thus they band together to protect them.
The answer is less centralized government with most of the power concentrated in the localities where it would be much easier to hold the politicos feet to the fire. It was what the founders intended, but we’ve been going the other way since the beginning. Reversing it would take nothing short of a revolution.
Instead of decentralized power and having people make decisions locally as far as possible, the “solution” is always a stronger, more authoritarian and centralized government that the people have no control over.