I often describe the great divide in American political and cultural life today as not being so much between the right and left, whatever those terms mean right now anyway, between Republicans and Democrats, but between the rise of a new managerial

class and the everyday citizen. And I think that this is an age old debate, an age old power struggle that surfaces every so often.

The American Revolution was fought on the question of whether citizens could be trusted to govern themselves

in a constitutional republic. The old world vision was that they could not, that it would be a mistake to entrust citizens to sort out the most important

questions that they faced and you know we on this side of the Atlantic said that

now for better or worse we will trust the everyday citizens to make those

decisions for themselves and to own the consequences of making those decisions

through a democratic process codified in a constitutional republic. And so we thought we settled that.

And yet here we are 250 years later now effectively sorting that question out

again, debating that question again,

through the rise of stakeholder capitalism, through the rise of the great reset,

through the rise of a new vision that calls for dissolving the boundaries between the public and private sector,

between nations, increasingly between the online and offline world, to again settle questions

that we may not be comfortable, they say, letting citizens decide for themselves on how or whether to address climate change,

COVID policies, addressing systemic racism or the vestiges of racial inequity that citizens alone

can't be trusted to settle those questions through the democratic process and so it

requires a new form of managerial intervention to settle those questions instead.

So anyway, this is what I think is really going on beneath the surface and explains I think

a lot of the otherwise inexplicable fissures between within the Republican Party,

within the Democrat Party for that matter.

And I think a lot more of it makes sense when you start seeing the actual socio-political cultural divide in terms of the

managerial class and the everyday citizen, the great reset and the great uprising, then through

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