The real truth is that people across the planet are fed up of

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51. What's needed is a global revolution of the middle-class.

Some have said it's nostalgia for the '50s that's driving this. But, it's not The Bomb and White Citizens Councils that people miss. It's stable jobs with pensions.

Some clearly don't get what's driving this revolt. It's not nostalgia for tail fins and segregation, it's economic insecurity that drove Brexit. It's a gathering belief that unfettered multinational corporations and free trade deals present an existential threat to the middle-class in the post-industrialized US, UK and EU countries.

Economic stability and Social Security could be a guarantee again, but we and the rest of the world would have to regulate businesses, reign in global banks, and tax the 1% again. Tear up existing free trade deals and erect punative tariffs against companies and products made in countries that refuse to sign a Universal Declaration of Social Security. That needs a revolution - a global revolution of the middle-class and the poor against the Upper Class.