Tim Ross – Politico Nov 14, 2025
Voters across the Western world are alarmed about threats to democracy, worrying that extremist parties, fake news and corruption will undermine elections.
A major poll by Ipsos of almost 10,000 voters in nine countries — seven in the European Union, plus the U.K. and the U.S. — found about half of voters are dissatisfied with the way democracy is working.
With the exception of Sweden, where people think democratic politics is working well, a clear majority worry about the risks to their systems of self-government over the next five years, according to the survey shared exclusively with POLITICO.
“There’s widespread concern about the way democracy is working, with people feeling unrepresented particularly by their national governments,” Gideon Skinner, senior director of U.K. politics at Ipsos, told POLITICO. “[There are] particular concerns around the impact of fake news, disinformation, lack of accountability for politicians, and extremism. In most countries there is a desire for radical change.”
The survey comes amid growing concern that democracy across the West is under threat. Wealth inequality around the world is driving support for extremist parties, undermining debate and preparing the ground for authoritarianism, according to a recent report for the G20.
This week, the European Commission unveiled its plans to strengthen democracy across the EU’s 27 countries. But critics said its proposal to tackle foreign interference in European elections was too weak, with participation voluntary across the bloc. Authorities have identified Russian disinformation and meddling in elections in many European countries over the past year, from Romania to Germany.
For the new poll, Ipsos questioned more than 9,800 voters in the U.K., France, the U.S., Spain, Italy, Sweden, Croatia, the Netherlands and Poland between Sept. 12 and Sept. 29. The pollsters found an average of 45 percent of respondents across all nine countries examined were dissatisfied with the way democracy was working, Skinner said.
Voters who identified as belonging to the political extremes — both on the far left and far right — were most likely to say democracy was failing.
In France and the Netherlands, satisfaction levels have fallen over the past year in response to political turmoil. The French government has repeatedly collapsed amid an ongoing crisis over the national budget, while the Dutch coalition fell apart earlier this year, triggering an election that was held in October.
In none of the nine countries surveyed did a majority of voters believe their national government was representing their views well. Voters in Croatia and the U.K. were the least likely to agree that their governments were representing them effectively, with just 23 percent saying so in both cases.
In every country surveyed apart from Poland — which saw a high turnout in presidential elections this year — more voters said the way democracy was working had worsened over the past five years than said it had improved. In the U.S. 61 percent of voters thought the state of democracy had worsened since 2020.
Voters in France (86 percent) and Spain (80 percent) were the most worried about what the next five years would mean for their democratic systems. Respondents identified the biggest risks to demo https://www.politico.eu/article/western-democracy-ipsos-poll/cracy as disinformation, corruption, a lack of accountability for politicians and the rise of extremist politics.
Generally, most people questioned still strongly supported democratic ideals, though in Croatia more than half (51 percent) said keeping democracy was only worth it if it delivered a good quality of life.
Ipsos found that respondents backed action to protect democracy, especially laws and enforcement to combat corruption, protecting the independence of the courts, better civic education in schools, and regulations against fake news and hate speech on social media.
“… democracy is broken” — Ha Ha Ha democracy was never “fixed”. It is promoted by the SATT because it is so easily corrupted. Ireland in 1919 was announced as a Republic but it never became that. It is a multi-culti “democracy” and is totally corrupt as a consequence.
Much as I despise ((( Geldoff ))) he released a song in the 1970’s called “Banana Republic” — all about Ireland — and that was 50 years !!! You can imagine how much worse it is now.
It’s the extremists in power like the uber-wealthy who are the real threat to democracy, not just because they want to retain power and not relinquish any of it, but because once out of power they may be brought to account for their crimes. Most don’t give a damn about environmental degradation and poisoning abroad like the Bhopal incident in India in 1984. Fines are no good, only imprisonment will work. China arrests and tries its corrupt bosses and even executes a few when innocents die so no wonder they all hate China.
“There’s widespread concern about the way democracy is working, with people feeling unrepresented particularly by their national governments,”
What? I tell you, if I could get to that scum I’d tear his face off.
No ones “feeling unrepresented”. They want you dead. You’re facist vermin openly replacing people with third world slaves.
Hahaha How dangerously stupid would one have to be to feel and say they “felt represented by the government”? Only the wealthy in certain industries and the Jew are represented, and wealthy Jews get “represented” out the wazoo.
The only manner in which the plebs and gentry are remotely represented is on the local level and maybe up to the state level in the less populated states, and that’s because the citizens know where those hacks live or may run into them at a grocery store within reach of a fist to their face or make a hood ornament out of them in the car park. Other than that, it’s a big fat “Fuuuuuck YOU!” to you and yours for the most part.
Of course, the feral federal regimes wouldn’t piss on you if you’re on fire, they’d just go to your house to steal what you may have left and f*ck your spouse and kids. The federal “governments” have been infiltrated, subverted, and overthrown decades, if not centuries, ago and have been doing nothing but robbing you blind while pimp-slapping you with a big rubber dong. Anyone who doesn’t realize that the federal regimes consider the citizenry as marks in a big con, retarded cannon fodder, and hosts for the parasites, and right-minded citizens wanting legal governance within the parameters of the Constitution as outright enemies.
And there is no actual “democracy”, of course, since the selection process of the deeply corrupt political parties weeds out any actual potential agents of change, public opinion is shaped by a very tightly jew-controlled media, you rarely find justice in the jewdiciary, and the voting machines and tabulators are so easily rigged that it’s blatantly absurd.
And if the Convid-19(84) full-spectrum terror operation should have taught the masses of imbeciles anything, it’s that “government” is a vicious enemy that has no problem whatsoever treating you and yours like total shit…up to and including killing you.
They call it democracy, I call it conocracy. All we will ever be to this system is toilet paper.
Nearly half of western voters? Is this from the ABS? Authority of BS – OUR global experts in all kinds of political correct BS? In Oz and Murica there are ABS’s too (Australian/American Bureau of Statistics) which also translates into the same – BS.
Ancient Greece – the supposed home of ‘democracy’ – was an elitist, slave-owning society. Democracy is a myth. You can’t have a true one-man one-vote society, because to do requires everyone to be of adequate intelligence and and to have a sound education. The current system is biased in favour of demagogues (and those behind them), and their moronic followers. At the very least, there should be an IQ test before a licence to vote is issued.
Just about everyone except for the Christian Zionists see through the facade about them.
The international Pharisaic Khazarian Mafia (KM) are now in damage control mode. They have accelerated their timetable by a couple years, because they have now been exposed. These poisonous darnell weeds or “tares” are now plainly in sight for all to see. This is expressed in an end time parable by Jesus Christ:
A Russian Orthodox Priest at large had this to say about the KM:
To add “insult to injury”, the Christian Zionist false Cleric John Hagee, having received his 30 pieces of silver from the KM, strongly supports the RM. He through his Christians United for Israel funded $3.5 million US for Russian Bolshevik Jewry to make its Aliyah from Russia and its satellites to Israel. Yet he spent not a farthing for the Arabs in Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Yemen and etc. who at one time or another were 40% Christians. Yet Hagee advocates murdering the Iranians for the RM. However Iran has a sufficient Christian minority respected by so-called “anti-Christian” Iranian leadership.
G-d has not forgotten, He is original. Satan is a copycat, attempting to repeat the past, to restore the Tower of Babel that reaches into his hellish “heaven” (Genesis 11:4) with remaking the now obsoleted Jewish 3rd temple, to be fittingly constructed by the grounds of the old Roman Fort Antonio, where his own continue to worship its wall. Even their red heifers are fake by human genetic engineering, not by an act of G-d.
Then during the Tower of Babel construction, G-d subverted the KM’s efforts done by the RM by immediately dispersing them through changes in language. He did this because the people were powerless to affect change. Once again G-d will act on behalf of the people now being held powerless.
The Christian Zionists vainly imagine, Gog is not the honourable President Vladimir Putin of Russia, but Netanyahu and the KM. Perhaps it is Iran who will be the arm of G-d to accomplish this?
With today’s pin point accuracy, it would be a simple matter to take out Gog dwelling safely in the British Isles as well as other locations. G-d has a special plan of action for the head of the snake to be crushed, referred to in Genesis 3:15.
Is the taking down of this cabal closer than otherwise imagined?