The obsession with ‘the people’ in politics took off in the counterculture revolution in the mid-20th…

The obsession with ‘the people’ in politics took off in the counterculture revolution in the mid-20th century. There it is, ‘Power to the People’. At the same time this movement went to war with the ‘establishment’ i.e. institutions. Counterculture created Trump. 1/3 https://t.co/Xarxu9o4fQ

The same generation who launched and cheered on countercultural movements became the richest generation in all of human history. Most of their wealth came from stripping public institutions and replacing them with privatised grifting. 2/3

Why the idiot distinction between left and Right explains nothing. The Left and Right both cash in on the void it left at the heart of societies. It was the destruction of institutions that did the damage. Without them societies are stupid and lethal. /end