Change Front: Things and Annus Horribilis

change front: There is even a sense of optimism rooted in the old left-wing shibboleth that the worse things get, the better -- meaning, of course that if things get really, really bad, people will rise up and overthrow the 1% . But the truth is much simpler if less optimistic the worse things get, the worse they are, according to Rabble. There is no measure of misery beyond which revolution pops up out the ground. One result of the annus horribilis is that activists everywhere have pledged to try harder -- at what is clearly not working. And if there is any popping to be done it is clearly not guaranteed, nor even these days remotely likely that it will be socialist. Obstacles to change It's not that there is no good news on the social change front. The victory of Donald Trump and the rise of right-wing parties across Europe demonstrate how much easier it is to play to fear, insecurity, hatred and retribution than it is to attract people to competing visions of the good life, rooted in science and delivered by the state -- a state that has been openly complicit in making things worse for two generations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.