Curiosidade do dia

Eu sei que é uma curiosidade de há quase 20 dias, mas tem ficado a remoer na minha mente.  

""I am increasingly convinced of something that we might call the Carter Rule: rich democracies need a crisis in order to change. It is almost impossible to sell voters on drastic reforms until their nation is in acute trouble."[Moi ici: A dificuldade de implementar reformas antes de uma crise]

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There are no votes in preventive action. Few of us mean it when we urge governments to think long-term, to fix roofs while the sun is shining, and so on. [Moi ici: O custo político das reformas antes de uma crise ser óbvia. Os líderes que tentam reformar precocemente enfrentam oposição pública porque os custos são evidentes, mas os benefícios só aparecem a longo prazo]

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If crisis isn't quite a sufficient condition for change, I suggest it has become a necessary one. This is even truer of high-income countries, where enough voters have enough to lose that even small tweaks to the status quo are provocative. [Moi ici: Mudanças radicais muitas vezes precisam de um colapso completo do status quo para serem aceites pelos eleitores]

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"Britain now, like America in his time, is still a few years away from that moment in the life of nations when voters look around and say, at last, 'Enough.""

Trechos retirados de "Things have to get worse to get better" de Janan Ganesh e publicado no FT de 2 de Janeiro último.