Paul Watson, "No one dreams of England’s future any more" (2018) https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/dreams-of-englands-future

«England seems locked into a present controlled by an imagined story of the past, but with no imagined story of the future to aspire to.

The problem with “much like it is now, but with the obvious bad bits gone” (which could arguably be referred to as “centrism”) is that “how it is now” absolutely depends on “the obvious bad bits” to keep it going: poverty, destitution, and food banks for one portion of the population is the essential underpinning foundation that allows an overabundance of affluence for a few, while keeping an electoral majority in just enough relative comfort — or at least the tantalising vision of that comfort being attainable — to keep voting for more of the same. It’s a very clever and controlling balancing act.»

What Watson identifies for England seems to apply to many other places elsewhere. Recommended to read.

Thank you @scribe for pointing to it.