Until the State once again begins to invest in the common good, societies worldwide will continue to unravel. Neoliberalism, aka privatization, lies at the core of fascism.

“For generations, we'd all been educated to worship at the altar of private capital's unrestrained pursuit of profit for the greatest benefit of its shareholders, as Milton Friedman argued in his 1970 essay entitled “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits” (PDF). No other considerations can shape the development of production and distribution of goods and services in our economies, else someone will shriek, SOCIALISM! Worse, we’ve even allowed ourselves to become convinced that individuals’ unrestrained pursuit of their own interests can somehow automagically lead to the best possible outcome for the whole society.

As it turns out, those ideas were the owner class’s self-serving delusions that incubated the fatal flaw within their system, rendering it fragile and weak. The flaw has festered as an undiagnosed malignancy because it enabled the interests who own our Military Industrial Complex and other key industries (the big banks, big tech, big ag, and big pharma) to become extremely wealthy. They also became deeply entrenched in society’s power networks. As such they’ve grown and wholly resistant to any curtailment of their extraordinary privileges, even when it becomes clear that they are driving their nations to destruction.

That gang is now discredited. And yet they remain in control. That is the essential problem we face today. It is a problem that vexes all the lower orders of society all across the world as they work to find ways peacefully to unseat the elites from their ill-used power. In this struggle, it is not Daniel Bell who is our prophet but C. Wright Mills and Murray Rothbard, who despite their divergent ideological perspectives agreed on one thing: it is unjust and unworkable that a small elite should rule the world without the consent of the governed.”

Excerpt from article: Ukraine war and Western system's fatal flaw
The undiagnosed malignancy at the core of our system is now out in the open view

ALEX KRAINER
https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/ukraine-war-and-western-systems-fatal

I think the polling data come from the deep manipulation of the climate of opinion through the media and education systems.

It is an institutional problem not easily fixed, especially since a huge proportion of the population (and the vast majority of the professional an managerial class) owe their jobs directly or indirectly to tax funding and rigging of the market to increase demand for parasitic work.

Possibly things need to get so bad that an Argentina-style revolution occurs.

If we review the last Canadian federal election:
– 33.7% voted for the Conservative Party
– 32.6% voted for the leftist Liberatl Party
– 17.8% voted for the socialist New Democratic Party
Even though the Conservatives had the most votes , the leftist-socialist coalition was chosen by the majority of Canadian voters (50.4%) to rule Canada. We get the government we deserve.

A more recent example is the October 2023 election in Poland, where:
– 35.4% voted for the conservative Law and Justice Party;
– 64.6% voted for a rag-tag coalition of radical left wing, far-right wing, former communist, and liberal parties.
Again, even though the conservatives had the most votes, the leftist-communist dominated coalition is ruling Poland. They got the government they deserve.

Human nature leads people to vote for "free" things that they think will be paid by others.