There have been several occasions in US history when the loss and subsequent mulching of one political order involved a long period of wailing and gnashing of teeth by the losers. When Andrew Jackson was elected, for example, the previous establishment cried and moaned in much the same way the current establishment is.
I think the current establishment has lost its shit so spectacularly in the wake of Trump's election because its main religious belief is humans are blank slates and are clay for molding via propaganda and mass media. There was a huge propaganda and mass media effort to stick Hillary Clinton in the white house, but it just didn't work. Rather than abandon their belief, they've doubled down on it and while their propaganda gets more strident it also gets less effective.
The process of centralization via financialization is going to flip around, mainly driven by the Internet. A lot of it will just be a reshuffling of the retarded corporate landscape--like big media companies selling off asssets they recently acquired--but the larger changes in the way people organize and work are yet to be seen.
YouTube is like a weather vane for these changes. It's the home of the counterculture, but also wants to collect a bunch of establishment corporation money tokens. Similarly, the establishment corporate world wants to get ads in front of the audience that fled to YouTube, but doesn't want to undermine its own future by supporting its competition. This tug of war has been going on for the past couple of years, and seems to be intensifying as time goes on.
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