Here's what actually changes. The last thirty years have created a status quo that the people are now rejecting - both left and right. But entrenched power is a tough nut to crack.

Country after country is rejecting the 30-year post Reagan-Thatcher status quo,as elections across the western world have repeatedly shown - Greece, Spain, the US and now the UK. But the status quo elites have fought an intensely vindictive campaign to keep their grip on power.

Time will tell. At present, the war is being fought by the grassroots alternative media, with the mainstream media and political establishment floundering to work out what to do next. The good old terrorism panic is losing its grip on foreign policy. The old reliable socialism-is-slavery trope is getting punch-drunk on the domestic front. The benevolent trickle-down, profit-before-people corporatocracy is being increasingly discredited in economic discourse.

The peasants are fighting back and look like they will win for a time - until the status quo elites regroup and plan their next move.

Interesting times.

This article could be subtitled "wishful thinking"