Could someone explain why I cannot reform my government?


I'm sure there's an explanation... but I'm not gonna lie, the political faction minigame in VK3 just breaks my brain. I can't follow it when 90 popups happen back to back and they all do incremental changes to this or that faction... and sometimes my government just gets bricked like this.

Why is the game like this? I mean I get that there's a knowledge issue happening here -- but at this point, I can't hover over any tooltip which would explain WHY my government is essentially non-functioning. This is so infuriating because it happens seemingly randomly --

I've got 2k hours in this game and this happens maybe once ever few hundred hours. Sometimes it solves itself - especially when I have elections about to occur or some kind of big event going on. Which... I'm assuming is kinda what's happening here. I just had my government forced open and a bunch of idealogies shifted. So, as I said, I know there's probably an explanation for why this happened but I swear I read the different popups and yet I can't figure out why any of those specific events would lead to a completely illegitimate government no matter how I reform it.