Because their politicians are playing their people, it’s the same across the west, the oligarchy controls all main parties, and the far right sponsored by malign foreign influence, ahem, is the only one running as reform, dooming us all to them winning eventually, and putting a fix in.

But that’s another story. They are surrendering us to tech, and to fascism, because they aren’t on our side. We are collectively too stupid to realize it. Because they think they will benefit, and we have nothing but nihilists in charge.