people aspiring for a better life or feeling themselves blocked, feeling their social mobility

blocked have started to make very unwise political choices.

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You write that there is much dispute about the causes of this global disorder we are speaking

with pankaj misra he is the author of the new book age of anger a history of the present you

write there is much dispute about the causes of this global disorder many observers have characterized

it as this back glass again back glass against an out of touch establishment explaining trumps victory

in the words of thomas pickety as primarily do the explosion and economic and geographic

inequality in the United States but you also quote Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman

admitting on the night of trumps victory that people like me and probably like most readers of the

new york times truly didn't understand the country we live in you had since the twin shocks of

brexit and the us election we have argued ineffectually about their causes while watching a gas

as the new representatives of the down trun and the left behind trump and Nigel forage posing in a

gold plated lift strut across a bewilderingly expanded theater of political absurdism to you what

explains the ineffectual nature of the arguments over the causes of the us election and brexit isn't

the cause neoliberalism that at least here in the u.s the democratic parties embrace of neoliberalism

essentially turning their backs on labor organizing in the working class isn't that that simple and if

it is that simple why is it so hard for the left to realize that well i think uh you know neoliberalism

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