Has democracy failed? More specifically has Western democracy failed?

I've written before about political pendulum swings and how, in the last several election cycles, the swings have become more extreme, especially the last two cycles. Are these wild swings back and forth organic or are they manufactured?

The hatred and the vitriol in today's political zeitgeist, on both sides, certainly seems to be an astro turf phenomenon, blown up by the media and the two political parties themselves, for the most part. But, the question is, to what end?

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Eggs and the Fight

Recently Matt Stoller's newsletter, Big, started a series of articles about the egg 'crisis' here in the USA and the entities behind it. It's a very good couple of articles, written by Basel Musharbash. The first article is entitled 'Hatching a Conspiracy: A BIG Investigation into Egg Prices'. The second article, 'Fowl Play: How Chicken Genetics Barons Created the Egg Crisis' goes into the two, yes only two, companies that control chicken genetics and the production of egg laying hens.

Image from Hatching a Conspiracy: A BIG Investigation into Egg Prices.