I would have posted this, almost whatever it said, just to show that the FT can make the same silly typos I am so adept at.
But I post if for another, much more important reason. It may be right:
Worry.
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“What you believe to be political blunders are often actually calculated and engineered events. What you believe to be chaotic disasters of coincidence are often actually deliberate acts of attrition warfare against the common people disguised as random catastrophe. Those you believe to be heroes are actually villains in friendly masks. Those you are told to be villains are actually good men and women who refused to be enslaved by the system. That which you see and hear is never exactly as it appears”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-10/guest-post-possible-outcomes-shutdown-theater
Indeed – politicians are not educating people on the real causes of the loss of meaning and purpose in their lives and so the anger will go to the extremists. Our vile Government has been fuelling the vilification of the poor, frightening people about immigration and feeding them false notions of growth. In short, people are being treated shoddily and the anger is percolating -there are grave dangers.
Far Right, sounds nasty, just like Far Left. But what’s the beef about Populists?
Something wrong with democratic choice?
It’s the way you sell them
Maybe, maybe not. I for one deeply mistrust Populism: for all their many failings, the official Parties have to construct some narrative, of greater or lesser complexity.
Populism, by contrast, is usually fuelled by a narrative that relies on the idea that there are simple – often one simple solution – to everything, UKIP being one classic such example, as was also the NSDAP in 1920’s Germany. Indeed, I think one could argue that Thatcherism was a populist take on Conservatism.
Populism, then, in my book forgets E.M.Forster’s perceptive warning that “the truth is rarely pure, and never simple”, and adopts instead the principle of the quiz game “Blankety Blank” in which the highest scores went to the most banal, trivial and obvious answers, which were at least right, unlike Thatcherite. Answers which (consider the Royal Mail privatization) were usually self-serving tosh, dressed up as the public interest.
“Ironically, France’s FN has grown in popularity as the party has combined anti-immigrant sentiment with the sort of anti-globalisation, anti-market rhetoric that is usually the preserve of the left. This explains why the French Socialist Party is losing just as many voters to Len Pen as the centre-right UMP”
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2013/10/the-european-far-right-is-growing-and-not-only-for-the-reasons-you-think/#more-74618