The devalued pound does not seem to be boosting exports, but it is eroding living standards and squeezing consumer spending.
They sense that the nation has gone astray: marriage is in crisis; the work ethic is eroding; living standards are in danger; the elites have failed; the news media sends out messages that make it harder to raise decent kids.
Broadcast networks pay through the nose to secure rights to NFL games in a world of eroding live TV viewership.
Public mistrust of government is high in Britain, and deference to the political elite has also collapsed as economic woes erode living standards.
Their foes hope that, as guilty verdicts mount against Mr Thaksin and company, and as high inflation erodes living standards, popular support for Thaksinism will wane.
The globalization embodied by the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank undermines democracy, erodes living standards and harms the environment, public health and safety.
Many Greeks have protested those measures, which have helped to erode living standards as the country enters its sixth year of recession and have played a part in an unemployment rate that has reached 27 percent.
And it distracts from the most important factor in these changes: capitalism, which demands mobility, whose crises have eroded living standards, and which thus, among other things, undermines the viability of conventional family structures and the traditional lifestyles that conservatives approve of.
Problems paying the mortgage, filling the gas tank and feeding the family have eroded living standards for millions of Americans during the past several months.
Twenty years of stagnation have eroded living standards and sapped confidence in the future, driving young Italians to leave the country in record numbers.
