-Karl Marx: his ideology, that intended to fight oppression, was only used to build dictatorships.

-Martin Luther King: institutionalized racism is still alive and well.

-Marsha P. Johnson: the current situation of american queer -and especially trans- people in America is self explanatory.

Populism

This is as old as the democracy itself, and we still don’t know how to fix it. People are so easily driven by their emotions and stubborn about their political opinions that you only have to exploit cynically their low instincts to take the power, especially in a crisis context. And once populists are in the power, they hardly give it back.