A recommendation for the above. An elegy for the recently departed liberal democracy and desperately sad. It states that we are now right on the edge of being too late to save the rump of the public realm being destroyed by populist politics.
Main point is that the idealisation of the market and market values is more insidious than privatisation, how we are forced to put a value to values, to make inappropriate comparison of what were rights and are now privileges - decent housing, education, clean water, fair trials, healthcare, libraries etc.
Really good, heart breaking and frightening. The ideologically motivated carnage hasn't stopped yet. The believers in market forces are coming to resemble millennial Christians - Christ will not appear until all sin has been purged, save they believe that things will not get better until the market is unchallenged by any aspect of the state. That things have not got better after 30 years of dismantling is their proof of their thesis.
The market unchallenged created slavery.
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