What's going on?
Put simply, the middle classes are revolting against Western managerial elites. The latter group includes professional politicians, entrenched bureaucrats, condescending academics, corporate phonies and propagandistic journalists.
What are the popular gripes against them?
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Illegal immigration and open borders have led to chaos.
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Globalization enriched the cosmopolitan elites who found worldwide markets for their various services.
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Unelected bureaucrats multiplied and vastly increased their power over private citizens. The targeted middle classes lacked the resources to fight back.
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The new global media reached billions and indoctrinated rather than reported.
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Academia, rather than focusing on education, became politicized as a shrill agent of cultural transformation.
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Utopian social planning increased housing, energy, and transportation costs.
In other words, elites never suffered the firsthand consequences of their own ideological fiats.
https://nypost.com/2019/06/13/western-middle-classes-are-revolting-globally-against-hypocritical-elites/