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And I agree with it.
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The problem is less 1984 with jack boots and camps, and more like Brave New World. Everyone is more interested in the new version of the I-Phone or who wins Strictly. Toys and rampant petty consumerism. We are all also atomised and encouraged to punch down, immigrants, scroungers, disabled, black. Bread and circuses. Fake news and lies abound. Meanwhile, a tsunami is heading to the shore and we aren’t looking to higher ground. It can’t end well. We are missing a message of hope. Labour is moribund and the Tory thieves are running rampant, with the guy in ‘Spoons only interested in this week’s footy and sees ‘Boris’ as one of them, a loveable buffoon. The Overton window has had no glazing for quite a while.
Even first time round that may have been what drove support for Nazism in Germany and Fascism in Italy. People didn’t support Hitler because he promised them death camps and a war with the rest of the world. People supported him because he built the autobahns, promoted Germanic culture and national pride, solved unemployment and was tough on law and order (unless you were a Jewish shopkeeper).
In the end Hitler was revealed as a complete monster. But during his “resistible rise” the reasons to support him were possibly similar to the reasons people in the UK now support national pride, anti-migrant polices and their pursuit of material wealth.
They also understood that if you own the media you own the debate. Today’s media inc the BBC is fully owned.
A 1930’s “Build back better” programme then to gain support and hide the true agenda.
Timely quote, given the erm…. elections tomorrow.
With respect to the English this describes their current condition quite well:
“a nation or world of people who will not use their intelligence are no better than animals that do not have intelligence, such people are beasts of burden and steaks on the table by choice & consent” (William Cooper: “Behold a Pale Horse”).
It summarises the points made by Mr Liddle.
I will leave the English who read this to decide which they are: a beast of burden or a steak.
Like some abused children, they love their groomers = the mass media and the various politicos.
However, this is the normal state of affairs, you only need to read the latter part of Tressel’s Ragged Trousered Philanthropists covering the election (of 1905/06) to know that the English have not changed mentally (tug that forelock) in more than a century. Sheeple.
For those that want to be truly depressed, read Boschwitz, The Passenger recently re-discovered in Germany. The writer followed the key principle to keep his head down and a packed suitcase to escape only to be killed in board a ship that was torpedoed.
Not good….
Hmmmmm………………oh dear….
Look, I think we constantly under estimate the lurid politicking that goes on on the internet.
What exactly do you think the Tory party (out) spends its donor’s money on? Coffee mornings at the WI? Polite debates about policy at your local church youth club?
They spend the money on spreading mis-information and lies on leaflets and on the internet. And target it at the austerity damaged people they’ve created.
And then there’s the other half of the story – HM Opposition – the Labour party – whose leading parliamentary members who are on at least £80K p.a. who are failing to help make Government accountable or offering up a viable alternative to voters. Failing.
This lot of jokers don’t even support motions from other parties against the Tories because Labour does not back other parties parliamentary motions apparently!! Well bugger me! ‘Didn’t know that! So what do you do then? How does one ‘oppose’ exactly? They also cravenly accept that they left the country in debt in 2010 because its ‘received wisdom’ in politics even though historic figures tell us that the Tories leave more debt behind than any Labour administration.
Don’t blame the voter eh?
These are political problems created by politicians and our political system that inhibits choice. The blame lies with them and it.
Don’t blame your neighbours, friends or family for goodness sake because that is exactly what they – especially the Tories – want you to do.
Don’t fall for it. I can’t say it often enough.
I don’t vote Tory but I’m quite sure if you label those voters with the F word, you will be pretty successful in mobilising the anti Labour vote.
Which would prove my point
No, it proves that if all you can do is label people who disagree with you as thick racist fascists, it exposes your intellectual bankruptcy and guarantees you will alienate them.
You keep it up though.
Actually, I think it was you who linked fascism with being thick and racist. Forgive me pointing it out.
I am reading a very interesting book right now; Fantasyland; How America went haywire, A 500 year history” by Kurt Anderson (“NYTimes bestselling author) that explains how our confusion between truth and fantasy has grown exponentially in the last 30 or so year. Makes you want to weep. And its not only the US.