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Posted on 06/23/2026 1:16:56 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was felled by a curse haunting most Western leaders — a failure to deliver change to voters who’ve lost trust in the capacity of modern politics to make their lives better and more affordable.
Starmer, who announced his resignation Monday only two years after winning a parliamentary landslide, was unable to push through his program in an era of political chaos, stigmatized institutions and wrenching economic disruption.
He’s not alone.
From the UK to Germany to France to the United States, leaders tap voter anger to get elected and promise to restore prosperity. But once in power, they often find it impossible to fulfill their promises, after failing to free-up entrenched political systems, control their parties, counter global economic forces or to overcome the cacophony of politics in the age of social media.
Their shortcomings only exacerbate public cynicism about democratic politics, fueling populism on the right and left and vacuums that can be exploited by extremists.
The modern political maelstrom raises the question of whether the current crop of Western leaders lacks the skill and magnetism of past giants like Margaret Thatcher in Britain, Helmut Kohl in Germany or President Ronald Reagan.
Or is something more fundamental happening? Have Western societies become ungovernable? And if leaders can’t enact the change they promised, why should voters retain trust in democratic institutions?
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Hold our beers.
CNN is so very concerned.
Populism IS "democratic politics," writ large.
They just don't believe in "democracy" when elections don't go their way.
Higher taxes the Democrat/Progressive/Socialist/Communists promise sure make lives better.
Well, as long as they replace these guys with even greyer versions of themselves, the underlying problem will not be resolved until it cannot be resolved by political means.
Every body else is Hitler./s
As if 250,000+ rapes by Islamists had nothing to do with Starmer exit.
What’s wrong with confiscatory inheritance taxes on family farms? Do they really want to keep farming? Plowing fields, planting, harvesting, caring for animals? After a few centuries, that must get tedious and icky. Ewww./s
No, they can see he is actively working against them in favor of muslims and other 3rd world degenerates over them.
Maybe his effort to replace the British people with invaders who hate the West and rape their girls had something to do with his downfall? Opps, did I just write that? Many have been arrested for doing the same thing.
“capacity of modern politics to make their lives better and more affordable.”
Who would want that? Who would expect that?
I think the current situation in the UK is exactly Starmer's "program".
Predictably, CNN gives a faulty analysis. European and American leaders turn on their white populace and do so with the full support of the MSM. Leaders are overturned despite the MSM. The MSM continue to lose readership/viewership. Of course, CNN makes up excuses.
Are current nitrogen levels too high or too low?
Whatever it is, it’s baaaad.
CO2 baaad. Nitrogen baaaad. Cows baaaaad. Plastic straws baaaad. Capitalism baaaad.
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