Anti-Establishment Upsurge: Disability Payments and Workforce Pensioners

anti-establishment upsurge: For starters, most populist voters are neither poor nor unemployed; they are not victims of globalization, immigration, and free trade, according to Market Watch. The main demographic groups behind the anti-establishment upsurge have been people outside the workforce: pensioners, middle-aged homemakers, and men with low educational qualifications receiving disability payments. But there are several reasons to question the link between populist politics and economic distress. In Britain, where detailed analyses of the votes actually cast in the Brexit referendum are now available, the group most directly affected by low-wage competition from immigrants and Chinese imports — young people under 35 — voted against Brexit by a wide margin, 65% to 35%. Meanwhile, 60% of pensioners who voted backed the Leave campaign, as did 59% of voters with disabilities. Duterte Promises God He Will Stop Cursing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is known for his foul language and his short fuse, said he would stop cursing after God told him to do so. By contrast, 53% of full-time workers who participated wanted Britain to remain in Europe, as did 51% of part-time workers. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.