The Great Trust Deficit: Why We Expect Nothing and Still End Up Disappointed is a bluntly hilarious exploration of modern democracy's most baffling paradox: we know our leaders will fail, and somehow we still manage to be shocked when they do. This book charts the slow collapse of political faith-from an era when citizens believed politicians might actually try, to the present day, where campaign promises are treated like prank phone calls and every scandal is met with a collective shrug.
With savage satire and unnervingly accurate insight, the book dissects the performance of leadership, the economics of disappointment, and the strange feedback loop that keeps bad candidates winning elections. It offers survival strategies for sane citizens-lower your expectations, ration your outrage, embrace satire as therapy-and asks why we continue to participate in a system that disappoints us with Olympic consistency.
It isn't a manifesto, a conspiracy, or a call to arms.
It is a mirror, held up to a political culture so absurd that laughter becomes the only rational response.
The Great Trust Deficit explains how democracies stumble forward, not because we believe, but because giving up would somehow be even worse.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Great Trust Deficit: Why We Expect Nothing and Still End Up Disappointed is a bluntly hilarious exploration of modern democracy's most baffling paradox: we know our leaders will fail, and somehow we still manage to be shocked when they do. This book charts the slow collapse of political faith-from an era when citizens believed politicians might actually try, to the present day, where campaign promises are treated like prank phone calls and every scandal is met with a collective shrug.With savage satire and unnervingly accurate insight, the book dissects the performance of leadership, the economics of disappointment, and the strange feedback loop that keeps bad candidates winning elections. It offers survival strategies for sane citizens-lower your expectations, ration your outrage, embrace satire as therapy-and asks why we continue to participate in a system that disappoints us with Olympic consistency.It isn't a manifesto, a conspiracy, or a call to arms.It is a mirror, held up to a political culture so absurd that laughter becomes the only rational response.The Great Trust Deficit explains how democracies stumble forward, not because we believe, but because giving up would somehow be even worse. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9798233182983
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Great Trust Deficit: Why We Expect Nothing and Still End Up Disappointed is a bluntly hilarious exploration of modern democracy's most baffling paradox: we know our leaders will fail, and somehow we still manage to be shocked when they do. This book charts the slow collapse of political faith-from an era when citizens believed politicians might actually try, to the present day, where campaign promises are treated like prank phone calls and every scandal is met with a collective shrug.With savage satire and unnervingly accurate insight, the book dissects the performance of leadership, the economics of disappointment, and the strange feedback loop that keeps bad candidates winning elections. It offers survival strategies for sane citizens-lower your expectations, ration your outrage, embrace satire as therapy-and asks why we continue to participate in a system that disappoints us with Olympic consistency.It isn't a manifesto, a conspiracy, or a call to arms.It is a mirror, held up to a political culture so absurd that laughter becomes the only rational response.The Great Trust Deficit explains how democracies stumble forward, not because we believe, but because giving up would somehow be even worse. Codice articolo 9798233182983
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. The Great Trust Deficit | Why We Expect Nothing and Still End Up Disappointed | Harry Iauder | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | Harry Lauder | EAN 9798233182983 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Codice articolo 134773284
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