Facebook can also spread anti-authoritarianism. There is a catch! Authoritarians are currently, and successfully, exploiting economic grievances. This is tru

Facebook can also spread anti-authoritarianism. There is a catch! Authoritarians are currently, and successfully, exploiting economic grievances. This is true in many neoliberal nations. Middle classes are shriking. Incomes relative to labor and cost of laborers (what they need to exist, show up for work, feed families) are increasingly inadequate. This makes people desperate. They do not want more of the same, and may turn to facists who make promises they do not intend to keep. Those of us who speak against authoritarians on a social basis are on the right side of history. The long arc of social progress favors anti-authroitarians. Our struggle today is more economic. While current neoliberal policy is rapidly improving poverty in some of the most needy regions, one cost is a lack of progress and some regression in more developed regions, the US, EU and friends being case in point. To clear majorities in these developed regions, they see a long arc of econoomic decline. That is challenging confidence, resulting in more volitile elections. An improved economic strategy is needed to bolster already solid social progress strategy. The lack of it puts social progress at ever increasing risk.