Those in today's intellectual left are concerned about the planet and about international migrants, but not so much about their compatriots in the working class. . . .
More broadly, a sense of betrayal among those being left behind by progress is leading to defections from mainstream parties of both right and left. Among the working classes and the young, there is a steady growth of far-left opposition to the established liberal order, as well as strong support for the far right. This increasing movement away from the center and toward the fringes is not an ideal formula for a stable democratic society.
As Tocqueville put it, we may be "sleeping on a volcano."
-Joel Kotkin, The Coming of Neo Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class
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