Piketty has studied this stuff extensively and thinks that Europe needs to move towards a USA style Federalist system or it is otherwise doomed. I'm pretty sur

Piketty has studied this stuff extensively and thinks that Europe needs to move towards a USA style Federalist system or it is otherwise doomed. I'm pretty sure we are in a phase where corporations and authoritarians have coopted the political engagement of lower socioeconomic classes thru identity and economic issues vs the traditional labor base of unions which is a threat to personal safety and democracy world wide.