Everywhere in the Western world, there is a total disconnect between the people and their allegedly representative governments. There has been a total inversion of the relationship between Citizen and State, and it is now the citizen who is the servant of an entrenched, unelected, unaccountable bureaucratic state and its willing accomplices in media.
As a result you have such things as colonization by hostile aliens masquerading as immigration policy, even though clear majorities of Western populations are against it. It manifests itself in other areas as well, such as crippling industrial and energy policies even though, again, most people are in favor of expanded production of petroleum.
How is it that in supposedly representative forms of government, we have so many major issues where the state pursues policies contrary to the desires of the people? The governments of the West have accomplished this inversion through nothing more complex than a giant confidence scam.
And this big confidence scam is ripe for undoing by a looming preference cascade. I literally pray to God for it.