We live in a failed democracy. It’s time we took back control
The following is adapted from the opening remarks made by Chris Hedges on a Munk Debates podcast: “Be it resolved, politics as usual isn’t working. It’s time for a revolution.”
I would argue that we centralized power in the hands of corporations. There is no way to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs. That power should be diffused and shared. The whole neoliberal project has created a global oligarchic class, where eight families own as much wealth as 50 per cent of the world’s population.
We live in a failed democracy, a system of inverted totalitarianism that has been a bipartisan failure The rise of these present-day demagogues and far-right figures, whether in Hungary, with the rise of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, or Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Britain and President Donald Trump in the U.S., is what happens when a system seizes up and doesn’t function. There’s a rage directed at both of the elites.
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