Oz Veloshian

They've made sure people are housed.

They've created social safety nets.

And yet everywhere we see these things fraying intensively with a lot of populist anger.

The United States is by no means singular in this.

It is.

Particularly in the Trump story, right?

But the trends and the flows are not...

unique to the United States by any means.

When you kind of look around the world and then you go to somewhere like China, which for the moment has huge issues, but those are not its issues, right?

How do we explain all this in the world today?

This really easy question to answer.

That when people feel for a host of reasons that are well known, that their leaders do not represent them,

and they do not believe that they can elicit change through the existing system, they will operate outside that system.

Now, in some cases, that means that they will have a gray market or a black market, or they will lay flat, as here in China among a lot of young people, they're laying flat, they don't wanna work, they're not gonna be a part of a state-owned enterprise, they don't wanna join the Communist Party, because there's no benefit for it.

In some cases, they'll turn to violence.

They'll demonstrate.

You know, we just did a survey at GZERO of the greatest number of political demonstrations in the world over the last year, number being described as people gathering nonviolent, more than three for a political purpose.

India was number one, not a surprise, also the most populous country in the world.

The United States was number two.

And Iran was number three.