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Reagonites will have to reorient their politics

The Overton Window has shifted. The UK may lament the demise of Corbyn's campaign, but the end result of that election saw the so-called Centrists fall out of power in Labour.

The same is happening in the USA. What these so-called Centrists have for so long disguised has been revealed to be meaningless. Mere Triangulation to carry-on with Reagonite-style politics of the dismantling of government, and hence democracy.

However, their hollowing out of government also saw them hollowing out their mechanisms for interacting with people outside their comfort zone. These people, these elites, and their sycophants, they lost complete touch with a great majority of people.

The Occupy Movement was not a one-off movement. It was a bellwether, a harbinger. And as this movement grows—and it'll grow exponentially from now one—people who do not adjust are going to be run down. The momentum of this movement has been building for 40 years. Like a flood. It'll carry off everyone, even those opposed.

It'll be a cleansing of Reagonism. Tearing it from its base, which before this moment, during the first four years of the Trump adminstration, had been dwindling, and attempting Triangulating into a complete hostile takeover of the Democratic Party leadership. Bush II and  the Clinton era establishment officials attempting to remake the Democratic Party into the lone party of the elite, considering how control of the Republicans had been relinquished to groups that are not fully under the control of the wealthy.

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