“Disrupt or be disrupted.” A huge new study of people in the UK, USA, Germany, Canada and France shows a singular vision: those invested in mainstream parties and those going to insurgent parties are united in the belief that the system is no longer working and radical change is necessary.
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The belief that things should stay the same and that it was OK until now; is just fuelling the disconnect and discontent.
Bipartisanship in the US, Centrism in the UK and EU, have effectively been a gateway for Far Right politics.
A failure to offer aspirational and radical changes, has made the Status Quo incapable of stalling the the Far Right.
I know that the largest reason I voted Yes in the 2014 Indyref was because I understood that the UK system was utterly beyond repair. Independence offered liberation and renewal. Hope.
I voted Remain because I saw the EU as protection against a hostile rw UK gov.