Personally, I feel that being in either of the extremes when it comes to reports of satisfaction is a bad sign. I feel a healthy relationship always requires acknowledging the failures of its own government and being critic on the things that are not being done right… and there’s always something not being done right…
So satisfaction and critique are mutually exclusive now? By that metric every government ever scores zero. Convenient logic when you need to dismiss data that inconveniences your worldview. High approval isn’t delusion. It’s people seeing poverty eradicated, infrastructure built, living standards rise. Problems exist. Work continues. That’s not denial that’s materialism. Maybe try analyzing from actual conditions instead of importing liberal anxiety about what “healthy” dissent should look like. The fairytale of insisting legitimacy requires perpetual dissatisfaction.
I get it. Watching a system deliver for its people while refusing to perform your brand of performative self flagellation and despair must feel unsettling. But projecting your need for cathartic “criticism” and unrest onto 1.4 billion of us is cope of the purest form.
So satisfaction and critique are mutually exclusive now? By that metric every government ever scores zero. Convenient logic when you need to dismiss data that inconveniences your worldview. High approval isn’t delusion. It’s people seeing poverty eradicated, infrastructure built, living standards rise. Problems exist. Work continues. That’s not denial that’s materialism. Maybe try analyzing from actual conditions instead of importing liberal anxiety about what “healthy” dissent should look like. The fairytale of insisting legitimacy requires perpetual dissatisfaction.
I get it. Watching a system deliver for its people while refusing to perform your brand of performative self flagellation and despair must feel unsettling. But projecting your need for cathartic “criticism” and unrest onto 1.4 billion of us is cope of the purest form.