like even ignoring the worst-case scenarios we’re set for crises in the immediate future that will dwarf the “cost-of-living crisis” of 2022-23 and the pandemic. but basically the vast majority of people are just hoping that it’ll all be fine and we’ll go back to how things were in the 90s if we have some Good Government. it’s going to be interesting to see how the masses respond to this situation, which they have been repeatedly informed of for decades now, but which they still don’t understand.
Multiple generations of people have been taught that all political participation is voting in a ballot box, nothing beyond that. They have been robbed of all political initiative and they will not get it back.
It is the job of vanguard parties and their participants to provide the initiative for them, and to drive them into following its leadership.