Most people here probably aren't satisfied with the status quo (politically speaking). What is your assessment of what is wrong and how would you fix it?
I'm in the U.S. and therefore U.S. national politics is what I'm thinking of but feel free to answer the question as it applied to your situation where ever you reside.
Why? Why are they not satisfied? That's the question that needs to be answered. By virtually all measures, things are better than they have ever been. So why are people dissatisfied? I think the answer is very simple and vary apparent. It's information. In the age of information, people are overwhelmed and confused, and information has become weaponized as evidenced by Russia's interference in our elections.
A famous American was frequently noted for saying, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.". Well, thanks to changes in how we receive our information people can have their own set of facts, e.g. the Republican entertainment industry. A clear demonstration of that is the fact that 75% of Republicans believe Obama was born in Kenya. Because of changes in how we receive our information which makes our information more vulnerable to misinformation, it make us as a country more vulnerable to manipulation, and that's probably the single largest threat we face as a nation. You try telling a "Birther" that Obama was really born in Hawaii. Unfortunately, for a large chuck of the population facts no longer matter.
I'm not sure how we fix that problem, but I think we begin by restoring the "Fairness Doctrine" which required media outlets to provide open and fair discussion of all issues of national importance.
Two, and this kind of gets back to the first, we need a better informed voters. I think a voter information packet mailed to each registered voter prior to election day which spells out the issues with some independent nonpartisan research and pros and cons from each side. This was done in California and California may still be doing it. A well informed voter is critical to democracy. Our children need better schools. Our children need to know enough to be able to act as responsible citizens, and sadly that isn't case today. Our children should know something about macroeconomics, unfortunately they don't.
Three, I think we need to make government more transparent and accountable. To do that, we need to change the way we elect our public officials. We need to take special interest money out of our politics. Our public officials both elected and appointed, should have but one loyalty and that should be the country and the people they are constitutionally suppose to represent. Conflict of interest requirements should be greatly enhanced and expanded to include family members. Public officials shouldn't be sleeping with lobbyists, e.g. Justice Thomas. Our public officials both elected and appointed should be free of conflicts of interests.
Elections should be publicly funded.
And finally, voters need to hold themselves accountable. Instead of just complaining, they need to keep themselves informed. They need to hold themselves for the veracity of their beliefs. They need to be open to receiving the truth. Voters need to hold themselves as well as their representatives and government officials accountable. People should be good citizens. Citizenship was once taught in schools. It's something we need to get back to.
There are many crucial issues like the electrical grid and climate change which need to be addressed, and they aren't in no small part owing to the the deficiencies in our governance.
Our problems begin and end with ourselves. Most importantly, we need to hold ourselves accountable instead of blaming our neighbors.
] I can honestly say that I have not yet met anyone who has had anything complimentary to say about Trump: Not even anything that could be interpreted as anywhere near nice.
