TRUE Conservatives counsel conservatism in the old-fashioned sense of trying, above all, to preserve our hard-won democratic institutions. Even if what we are preserving is a memory, at least it is a recent one — and reason for hope that we might yet start the engine again. But not so long as it is possible for billionaires to exist. The coexistence of billionaires and human beings is impossible. One will have to go. You decide — you who might still be a servant or a slave to the Parasite One Percent. Quit. Throw off your chains. Join us now in The Rebellion —Brer Abbott for TRUE Conservatives
“In [his book], Mr Mishra shocks on several levels. First, he sees no hope that 2016 might prove the high-water mark of anger, cynicism and ugly nationalism. Indeed, he argues that the world will become only more divided and disorderly. As economies slow, more people will feel that powerful elites have dangled the fruits of material progress only to pull them away. More will feel a sense of displacement, either figuratively within their country, or literally, because they have been forced to leave their failing states. Some will take the spontaneous decision to vote for a populist who promises to tear down the system at great cost. Some will make a life-altering and fatal decision for jihad. Whether easy or extreme, angry reactions may be perverse, but they can feel exhilarating.”