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RE: Progress & Conservation: A Radical Centrist Manifesto

I'm more optimistic than that. Organized labor has disappeared, the proletariat as a political force is dead, but we are seeing the emergence of the precariat. I think Guy Standing and Murray Bookchin were right to recognize that the working class was no longer going to be the driving force behind progressive movements. Rather, it is the unemployed, the homeless, and those who have precarious employment (jobs that don't provide security)--these are the folks that are going to be organizing protests and political movements in the near future. I think the popularity of people like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a good sign. And Andrew Yang will likely make it into the Democratic Party Presidential debates, which will push the idea of universal basic income into the mainstream (just as Bernie being in the last round of such debates pushed universal healthcare and other progressive measures into the mainstream). The popularity of Ocasio is forcing other less progressive people to focus more on climate change too.

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I forgot to mention the splintering of ethnic groups as a force of resistance via corporate multiculturalism. So the oligarchs took out the three primary routes of resistance in the last 100-years: labor, religion, and ethnic homogeny. I might add in the splintering
of the family unit to boot.
Our perspectives on this disaster are likely divergent because of our differing metaphysics. I concede to being a curmudgeon Gnostic. Best wishes nevertheless:)

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