Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot

https://lemmy.world/post/28200121

Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

He’s not wrong.

We’re still a bunch of greedy monkeys, and no amount of education or “proper parenting” can fully override the base biology all the time for every person.

As much as it would be great to be better, we aren’t even close.

Yeah, he raises a good point.

The question then becomes: how do we make the people who feel excluded (and hence want to burn everything down) feel included?

By stopping austerity. Tax the wealthy and reinstate everything that’s been torn down since the new deal. Shift taxes from taxing labour to taxing assets.
Are you a Gary’s Economics fan? If not you should check out his youtube.
Yeah, I do follow him. I’m actually surprised he’s not mentioned in the column, you’d think Monbiot would be aware of him by now.