Trust in Government Is Collapsing Around the World
If with &#x27;around the world&#x27; they intend to mean &#x27;The USA and the UK&#x27; then I&#x27;m all in agreement.<p>But the rest of the world is not that much different from 12 months ago.<p>The article <i>sugggests strongly</i> that these other countries had a completely different view of their governments in the recent past but I see very little evidence of that.<p>But in the UK (see: brexit) and in the USA (see: Trump) there definitely is a populist shift in progress.<p>The French, the Italians, the Russians and even the Dutch have had a substantial trust issue with their governments as long as I&#x27;ve been alive, I don&#x27;t know enough about the local politics of a lot of the other countries listed there but I suspect that given the fact that none of the ones that I am familiar with would warrant the label &#x27;collapse&#x27; that it is not as alarmist as the title would have you believe.<p>What is happening is that there is a slow but steady push towards more nationalist representation in the various parliaments and this is a source for concern.<p>And this is all not to say that a Trump presidency and an exit of the UK from the EU can&#x27;t&#x2F;won&#x27;t do plenty of damage, but with some luck they will cause some real political reform in those two countries.<p>It&#x27;s either that or a very good chance of serious economic upheaval.