日本の政治は上手くいっているか?
日本の政治の平和基金会による評価は、警報、要注意、安定、持続可能の内の安定である。破綻又は無政府状態に近い「警報」レベルほど酷くはないが、フィンランドやノルウェーのように国民が政府を信頼しきっている国と比較すれば、雲泥の差がある。
政治家や官僚は腐敗しているし、国民目線で考えられないので、信頼どころか政治に憤慨していると言って良いだろう。民主主義は形ばかりで実質的な国民主権とは程遠い。政治の透明性を高めるために、政治の仕組みを第三者委員会で検討したらどうかという賢明な提案も愚かな野党に潰される始末である。
民主主義を生み出した西欧の国なら反政府運動が起きても不思議ではないだろう。
Is Japanese politics going well?
The Peace Foundation has rated Japan's politics as stable, out of the four levels of "alert," "needs caution," "stable," and "sustainable." It's not as bad as the "alert" level, which is closer to bankruptcy or anarchy, but it's a world apart from countries like Finland and Norway, where the people have complete trust in their governments.
Politicians and bureaucrats are corrupt and cannot think from the public's point of view, so it is fair to say that far from trusting politics, people are angry about it. Democracy is a mere formality, and is far from actual the sovereignty of the people. A wise proposal to have a third-party committee examine the political system to increase transparency in politics was crushed by the foolish opposition party.
It is not surprising that anti-government movements would arise if japan is a Western country that gave birth to democracy.