12 January

Many evoke the civil rights reforms of the 1960s as supposed evidence that activism and people-led change are both possible and define democracy. You can see with Trump’s rapid reversal of those reforms, which in reality has been underway for several decades, that what I say about those reforms is the actual truth.  They only happened because elite groups in society were decimated by two world wars, an economic depression and the Spanish Flu pandemic. The status-led social model that our mid-century reforms replaced has been rapidly returning to remove those reforms, since the 1970s. There is no ‘we’, without catastrophe.