I think some cracks are appearing now as people are starting to realise just how badly they've been screwed. But there's grumbling and peanut throwing don't constitute a movement.

It's going to take a combination of weight of numbers behind a banner and sheer repetition to put a stake through the 'established wisdom' nonsense.

McMurtry narrates the ascendance of a "fanatic mind-set" in the west following the demise of the Soviet Union, when "a strange ideological inversion occurred." Marxism's 'economic determinism', "abhorred by liberal theory", was swiftly replaced with the west's own brand of imposed economic determinism. "Inevitable globalization" was framed as a product of unaccountable and unstoppable forces unleashed by a veritable law of nature, the ultimate "wisdom of the market" that benefits all.

McMurtry demonstrates the destruction of value and meaning inherent in the adoption of this absolutist dogma, which claims to encompass all human activity and reflexively rules out of order any other explanation or concern. He also traces the use of this irrationality to justify brutal economic and military predation under the twin deceptions of "free trade" and "democracy". The nakedness of this nonsense is revealed by McMurtry's observation that it glorifies its "no alternative" market theory and bullying imperial trade policies as the ultimate in economic freedom.

Noting the ways in which similar inversions of meaning have been used in totalitarian ideologies, he concludes that inversion is one of the fundamental processes involved in the development of today's "fanatic mind-set":

"Throughout the world re-engineering by the global apparatchiks, there has been a transformative principle of representation across phenomena and crises: to invert social values and general facts into their contrary so that no bearings remain for intelligibility of resistance." [emphasis in original]

so that no bearings remain for intelligibility of resistance

the destruction of meaning and public discourse is imho a form of meme-warfare analogous to the targeting of water and power facilities, hospitals and schools by aerial bombardment in order to obliterate civil life.  it is a bombing campaign directed at the infrastructure of thought and discourse.  severing political discourse entirely from fact or evidence depowers and marginalises any opposition by leaving them with no recourse -- since evidence, testimony, documentation, facts, statistics, and even the lived experience of the people are denied and twisted into their polar opppsite -- but despair or violence.

George Carlin (of whom I am not the biggest fan, but now and then he's spot on) said once "There's a reason education sucks and it'll never get any better, because the owners of this country don't want it better."

is an ignorant mob easier to rule than an informed and thoughtful electorate?  someone seems to think so.

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...