This is a short monologue from a YouTube video expressing disillusionment with mainstream politicians and parties. The speaker argues that political discourse is polarized and performative, causing citizens to lose trust and disengage; economic factors (deindustrialization, high male unemployment) and a perceived lack of future direction are cited as contributors.
When I look at our politicians and no offense to them, I don't get any interest or excitement in anything they say about anything. You basically got one bunch essentially trying to defend things they're not doing very well and the other bunch basically trying to find things the other side are not doing very well and go on about them. And the only people that lose out here are the citizens. Yeah. And that's why people kind of turning off. And you see that just in the general polling that the, the shift away from the sort of the two major parties tells you that people and also fringe parties and not sport parties, fringe parties over here. That's just, you know, a symptom of a problem that people are losing when people lose trust. We've seen it in the US A lot of that has economic issues like deindustrialization and high male unemployment is a huge issue. But people having no sense of what they're supposed to be doing, no sense of what the future looks like.
