5 July

Democracy is winning. What if that's why the world seems batshit crazy right now? I don't have my ceremonial jackboots on, there is a serious line of thought that says democracy is what you get when people lose a shared set of strong beliefs. So they have a crazy mixed up ideas period - democracy - until new strong and shared beliefs emerge. In the meantime populists win democratic elections with cartoon strong beliefs, like patriotism, and the 3Rs in education. People long for unifying, strong belief. Also why democracy won't beat populists.