Love balloon at the Reclaim Love street party in London's Piccadilly Circus. Credit: Demotix/Matt Irving.
Progressive-minded people are struggling to articulate an end-goal for politics. The Right, in most places, remains committed to neoliberalism (and its ideals of private property, liberty, and efficiency). The Left, meanwhile, has failed to respond convincingly.
There are some who still have faith in a Marxist vision of the collapse of capitalism; others hold onto religious prophecies. But for the rest of us, the direction our political journey should take has become unclear. We do not know where we are going. At the same time, there is a growing disdain of politics generally, especially amongst young people. Politicians don’t look like us, they don’t behave like we do, and their ideas don’t connect to our needs.
