News Times are Old Times

Meritocracy seems to have taken a beating with the credit crunch, the new government's tax rises, higher bills, worse weather, terrorist attacks etc.... okay maybe all those cannot be blamed but we are all told to expect being poorer. Historians are quick to tell us how people in the 1920s survived despite the crunches in the economy. The fact that the British Empire collapsed and the world went to war after the 20s doesn't seem to have leaked into the news yet. In many ways the second world war can be blamed for economic troubles, and those same troubles can directly explain the rise of the far-right in Germany. We've shifted very slightly to the right in Britain but it will be interesting to see what happens in Europe. The US has already seen Republican victories in government.