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income inequality
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these protesters share something else: wariness, even contempt, toward traditional politicians and the democratic political process they preside over.
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they have little faith in the ballot box.
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high unemployment
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social spending
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cuts in social spendin
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protesters say they so distrust their country’s political class and its pandering to established interest groups
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their political leaders, regardless of party, had been so thoroughly captured by security concerns, ultra-Orthodox groups and other special interests
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could no longer respond to the country’s middle class.
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anticorruption measure
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less hierarchical, more participatory
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the political system has abandoned its citizens.”
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That consensus, championed by scholars like Francis Fukuyama in his book “The End of History and the Last Man,” has been shaken if not broken by a seemingly endless succession of crises
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continuing European and American debt crisis —
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