[hnbad]

> It's not even a "left vs right" issue; no one thinks the system is working right now.

That's true but as always the difference between left vs right (populism) is not what is being said but what the proposed solution is. This goes for many things: healthcare, immigration, poverty, etc. The issues are hot button topics but the proposed or implied solutions vary drastically. Alas of course the left in countries like the UK and Germany have become very centrist and instead of proposing different solutions from the right often join the moderate conservatives in suggesting what the right says "but less". This results in aimless reformism, means testing and bureaucracy which further feeds into far right populism by demonstrating "the left" as incompetent.