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The US election: The times they aren't a-changing
Right-wing populism is not fading away on account of exposure through holding office. Nor are the capsized political systems of the neoliberal era automatically righting themselves, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
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We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
IT was billed as the election that would triumphantly restore the liberal-capitalist centre: back to 2008, before the financial crash and succeeding crises shattered political systems globally.
Even if the late counts narrowly deliver more states than Joe Biden needs to secure the 270 votes in the Electoral College, an anti-democratic product of the slave-owning era, the US presidential election has certainly not done that.
Against what had been growing chatter this autumn that we were on the cusp of a new epoch as this decade ends, events in the US dramatically confirm continuing political and social polarisation.
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