fourteen years ago @allinwithchris.bsky.social wrote "Twilight of the Elites" about public disillusionment with Enron's fraud and the financial crisis, the churches giving cover to pedophilia, failed Middle East wars. 1/

we had a populist revolt… and elected people who are openly corrupt con-men, a President who was a good friend to, and perhaps co-connoisseur with, the organizer of an extraordinary pedophilia ring, people who are perpetrating new Middle East wars on paper thin pretexts. 2/

no wonder the public is nihilistic. empirical experience suggests the only choice they face is between the frying pan and the fire. /fin