This much is known hereabouts. (Actually there must be experts on US politics among Europe's journalists, but they rarely manage to get enough time in the general news shows to explain things in detail. If I were as keen as I sometimes feel I should, I could get enough information, even if I could not read English.)

The other day I learned that in Spain (- not only in India or Africa -) regional governments had a strong interest in wasting the nation's money, for being reelected. Now airports and opera houses stand unused, their builders are in affluent retirement. Such effective anarchy should be fought in the whole nation's interest; the system must be changed so that responsibility is encouraged. This cause may unite citizens who have different views on any particular issue.

Democracy will never be completely rational and civilized; our genes seem to be opposed to that. Let us be modest, rather than giving up.