Sir Richard Branson has delivered his “Thoughts on America” in a blog post Friday, claiming that the “mob violence” last week in Washington had left him “in greater despair than ever before.”
The Virgin founder criticized those who “embrace the big lie of a ‘stolen election,’ spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories shrouded in an idea of ‘patriotism’ that rejects pretty much everything that truly makes societies and nations great, like tolerance, diversity, compassion or solidarity.”
Branson, who lost his mother to Covid-19 last Friday, writes that he sees the violence and “outpouring of hate” as stemming from a “large portion of America’s electorate . . . gripped by fear of a rapidly changing world and the dismantling of privilege and power generations of white people have come to take for granted, knowingly or not.”
He adds that “the complexity of a modern, globalized world is daunting and overwhelming . . . rather than making America work for everyone, the goal seems to be to burn it down to its foundations.”
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