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Former High Court Judge and Financial Bandits Royal Commissioner hits the nail on the head.

Trust in institutions has been "destroyed" and policy debates have been replaced by "three or four word slogans", according to the man who led the royal commission into the banking sector. ......

....... "Reasoned debates about issues of policy are now rare. (Three or four word slogans have taken their place)," the speech read.

"And political rhetoric now resorts to the language of war, seeking to portray opposing views as presenting existential threats to society as we now know it.

"Trust in all sorts of institutions, governmental and private, has been damaged or destroyed."........

....... He said political decision making processes were not only "opaque" but also, too often seen "as skewed, if not captured, by the interests of those large and powerful enough to lobby governments behind closed doors". ..........

www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-07/kenneth-h...-has-eroded/11393488

I'd say his summary would be spot on.
Just need ordinary people to wake up to what's happening!