Politicians think a lot about their own interests and care little about the public

Loving how these communities invariably contain the most boring visualizations possible or the most boring data you could collect

did they take measures between 2020 and 2024? if not, from a dataviz standpoint, i don't think years 2021, 22, 23 should be included in the x-labels; it makes it look like a clean, linear increase through the years.

Give me that amount of money and power, combined with almost no repercussion for being a selfish prick to keep that life style, and I too may not be the upstanding citizen I like to think of myself.

I honestly think we would be a lot better off if decisions where made by random citizens - kind of like jury duty, instead of professional politicians.

This graph confused me for some time

Also, *surprised Pikachu.jpg*

Representative democracy’s flaw is that representatives have little accountability. A bad actor has 2-6 years to do whatever they want. Enrich themselves, their friends, benefit a company that will give them an extremely cushy consultancy role when they leave the government, enact deeply unpopular laws, etc.

When you consider other things like the fact that representatives (at least in the us) are usually from a political class that has nothing in common with the working man, the fact they are almost never minoritized demographics, and they never see their constituents face to face until its time to hit the campaign trail, it’s no surprise they don’t value your interests until its time to demand your vote come November.

That's an extremely straight line, my guy.

Hope they update the survey yearly from now on. I put those two year points to a stupid sheets forecast and 80% mark of disgruntled people will pass around 2028 according to that.