A growing lack of faith in politics

Jean Portante considers that Germany, France and Italy are currently going through similar political situations. "In all three cases, one senses how exasperation is making citizens oscillate between opposite camps, without those who take turns in power ever managing to carry out satisfactory policies in difficult areas ... . Social divides denounced as old-fashioned by the champions of liberalism remain, however, the lynchpin of all politics as the global economical recession is casting its shadow and the degradation of the standard of living for most Europeans is very likely to get worse. ... [But] voters no longer see any difference between left-wing and right-wing governance and throw themselves into the arms of the former one moment and the latter the next, losing a bit more of their faith in politicians each time, thus undermining democracy."

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