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Soul care for leaders
TRUTH-TELLING IN AN AGE OF MISTRUST by James Catford
Scare-mongerers, establishment figures, part of a crooked system: just some of the insults thrown at politicians over the course of the last twelve months.
During the United States Presidential race, establishment figure Hillary Clinton was pitched against the self-proclaimed outsider Donald Trump. Neither were hugely trusted by the public, but Trump ' s popular support was against all the odds largely because he was ' not one of them ', the hated political elite.
Similarly in the Brexit referendum, mainstream economists looked intently into the camera and swore blind that the UK risked Armageddon if it left the European Union.‘ Nonsense,’ was the outraged response,‘ you are just scaremongering to frighten us into voting to remain.’
Commenting on the US election, the documentary film maker Michael Moore claimed that a lot of the people who supported Trump did so because they wanted to lob a Molotov Cocktail into the heart of the government machine.