Quotes About Disempowered

emasculated.

You always hear about the disempowered actor, their fate in other people's hands. It's just really wonderful to experience it the other way around.

Construing populist protest as either malevolent or misdirected absolves governing elites of responsibility for creating the conditions that have eroded the dignity of work and left many feeling disrespected and disempowered. The diminished economic and cultural status of working people in recent decades is not the result of inexorable forces; it is the result of the way mainstream political parties and elites have governed.