Decades of government demonization renders it unable to handle national threats - Richard Wolff

Описание: "If you demonize the government for decades, as we have in this country, as you blame it for everything that goes wrong and you exempt from blame the private sector, it means that when you have a crisis of the sort of this pandemic, you have immobilized [the government]... The United Kingdom has a situation where the government is simply not trusted by the mass of people. Let's remember the government organized that vote around Brexit trying to convince people that the problems of their society were not the fault of the capitalist economic system, they  were the fault of, you guessed it, foreigners... All government is bad, foreign governments are worse. So the British broke away... You know what that does? It makes you uniquely incapacitated when it comes to dealing with a threat like a virus." - Richard Wolff

This is a clip from Economic Update: The Economics Lesson Taught by the Pandemic
[Season 11, Episode 3]
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