Whitewavemark2
I have been listening and reading quite a bit this morning, and I think that the thing that I found most convincing was when someone was commenting on what history will make about this period.
The argument was that Trump, Brexit, and the movement to the right and authoritarianism throughout the world is a result of the world financial shock of 2008, which resulted in so much hardship for ordinary people and the failure for governments to address this.
The insane leverage by the banks and subsequent crash, meant something like 1 in 50 families losing their home in the USA, many of which have struggled to recover from.
In the U.K. austerity, by cutting public services to the bone, middle class was no longer a by-word for life time employment, which meant that people felt far less secure and the trust in politicians gone.
Meanwhile the very wealthy grew even wealthier, and with an apparent ability to influence governments throughout the world meant democracy was no longer the force we lived under in our youth.
As the real experiences of the dangers of populism are lost from living memory, they are more likely to recur.
