This was posted on the blog yesterday by a commentator called Beebop. I thought its novelty and the questions it raises were important, so I am sharing it here.
I ran your politics of hate glossary entry through AI, asking it to rewrite in the style of a Sun newspaper article. The bigtech movement has relied on controlling the lowest common denominator, and we need to reach them as well. This was the first result:
*EXCLUSIVE: POLITICS OF HATE UNLEASHED – Is Your Future Being Sold Out?*
February 17, 2026
The shocking truth behind the sinister ‘Politics of Hate' sweeping the nation! Is it a clever tactic to keep YOU distracted while the real power players rake in the cash?
This toxic strategy is all about DIVIDE AND RULE. Politicians peddle fear and resentment, blaming migrants, minorities, and the poor for YOUR problems. Meanwhile, the rich get richer, and public services crumble.
*THE PLAYBOOK:*
1. *DISTRACTION TECHNIQUE*: Austerity bites? Blame the immigrants!
2. *FALSE ECONOMICS*: “There's not enough to go round” – WRONG!
3. *DEMOCRACY DESTROYED*: Culture wars and lies replace accountability.
4. *HATE IS PROFITABLE*: Fear = attention = power = MONEY!
5. *SOCIETY COLLAPSES*: Trust, cooperation, and communities shattered.But WAIT! There's hope. We can fight back with the “Politics of Care” – fair taxes, social security, and honesty.
*The choice is yours:* Fear and division OR truth and solidarity? The future of our economy and democracy hangs in the balance!
SHARE THIS ARTICLE AND WAKE UP THE NATION!
Beebop then. added:
What stands out for me reading that is that it did galvanise support for action, however there was no obvious suggested action other than ‘share this article'. I found myself thinking yes, I agree with that, but wondering what I could do about it.
Because the population is reading these kind of things regularly, and we feel the outrage, and what then? We carry on as usual. People are feeling so powerless. Here, in this blog, we have a consensus of thought. How can we ‘activate' people? I think if there are suggested actions, we can move past the mass outrage which is where we're all stuck. Does this make sense?
Let me address those last three sentences.
Yes, it makes sense, and Beebop is right: people are not apathetic, but they have been trained by neoliberal politics to feel powerless, and outrage without agency leads nowhere. So, I agree, we must always link analysis to action.
I have often ended posts with this comment:
Taking further action
If you want to write a letter to your MP on the issues raised in this blog post, there is a ChatGPT prompt to assist you in doing so, with full instructions, here.
One word of warning, though: please ensure you have the correct MP. ChatGPT can get it wrong.
When used, that means ending posts and videos with something concrete: a suggestion to write to an MP. That might, though, I accept, not always be enough. It may also be appropriate to support:
- other campaigns,
- a local housing or migrant-support group.
Or it might require:
- attending a council meeting,
- challenging misinformation in your own networks, or (maybe)
- helping organise a Funding the Future discussion group.
These are small, practical steps to rebuild confidence and solidarity because the politics of care is not just an idea. It is about participation. When people see that their actions matter, outrage then becomes about change.
What do you think?
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This is exactly like the bread a circus’s mentioned the other day, create outrage then offer no solution 2 seconds later your fed like a Pac-Man another outrage.
Taking action is key but I think so to is feeling like your action is meaningful, from your list for example writing to a Tory MP won’t work, a council meeting likewise you talk the talk and no one listens. Any other groups are just obliterated there little to non near me. There has to be options for introverts who are not good at going out or talking or joining groups or indeed have no network to talk issues with. Social media is clearly rigged to circus so getting your message past the algorithm is a challenge as you found out kindness words are deleted. I’ve really connected with the idea of circuses because it’s true you are powerless because the system is designed so and those who are waking up are beginning to realise how controlled our lives are it’s like Jim Carrey in the Truman show. Or the Matrix or I robot. Do I sense a theme here. So ye how to take meaningful action that you feel like you’ve made a change not just added the same words into the same conversations that nothing progresses, or words that are agreed with and non acted upon ergo the cycle repeats. It is a muse of mine for the last couple of days to which answers remain illusive…..
I am introvert. Very much so. It will take me days to recover from next weekend.
Social media was made for us. That’s why I do it.
I saw this morning that the Greens had shared a clip from GB News where one of their resident Nazgul was criticising the party, saying, “They are nice, they are left wing, it’s disgusting.” The Greens shared this as a badge of honour, and rightly so. Perhaps our direct action should be being nice. To take a line from the new Superman movie, which the right wing hated as it was woke (and all the better for it), “perhaps being nice is the new punk rock.” Punk is about counterculture and opposing authority, and the authorities have left being nice behind. Perhaps we should make a point of not doing so.
‘Ban all the dark money flooding politics’ might be the best way to get through to the public, who by a large majority think ‘they are all in it for themselves’.
The Greens might just campaign for it but so far not clear. The BBC should be bombarded with ‘ ask them (Streeting, Starmer, Reeves, Cooper) if they feel they owe anything to their ‘donors’
If that got through – then it could open up the rest for discussion – ‘is there really no money’ etc.
You know, I have no idea.
I work in local government where I hear perfectly intelligent colleagues tell me everyday that life is shit but that they pay too much tax; that we must stop the boats; that Farage ‘cares’; Trump is a ‘man of action’.
Off the top of my head is that we are not supposed to call it the ‘politics of care’ but Politics for the People.
We must remember that the financial strength of the far right is also its weakness – we must relentlessly point out who is funding this hate, and that the funders are not one of us at all. And ‘us’ includes those who are taken in by hate as well. We must call it out.
It’s only on wider social media we need worry about that.
Essentially we need to return to Voltaire and redefine parenthood, teaching, management and ultimately government, purely as acts of care and nurturing in respect to the gardens of humanity in general. We need to reject the Panglossian conclusions of Fukuyama and his end of history which placed US Neoliberal ‘Democracy’ as being the best of all possible worlds Derrida critiqued Fukuyama in his 1993 text ‘Specters’ of Marx’ but he really should have called it Specters of Pangloss. Donald J Trump is currently President Pangloss – the best of all possible US Presidents presiding over the US as the best of all possible worlds.
We need to deconstruct the concept of ‘power’ along with its toxic Neoliberal ‘Ethos’ and substitute their false and empty certainties which always lead toward moral and ethical nihilism and replace them with unvarnished truths, based upon scientific and ideological scepticism and humility and bring back political responsibility and accountability. We must substitute the discredited ‘will to power’ for the will to cultivate.
Essentially we need to reclaim and redefine the term ‘socialism’ but do so from the basis of thinking purely in terms of care and nurturing as being investments in all forms of ‘Social Capital’ and then applying that foundation within the economics of Michael Hudson’s 2022 book ‘The Destiny of Civilization’.
Thanks
Why don’t you support job guarantee if support politics of care? “Hours are useless in themselves. Employers want to buy stuff to accomplish useful work so they can combine and sell the output”
That’s their problem, not the employees. The employee just sells hours. They turn up and are paid for their time. It is the job of the employer to transform those hours into useful output that covers the cost of the time and adds value. That’s why they get a margin in the first place. Otherwise there is no basis for the profit share.
An employee that sells more than hours isn’t an employee, they are a subcontractor, and the market will allocate some of the profit share to them. Employers, in conjunction with the state, try to game the system by ensuring there are always fewer job offers than people that want them, which boosts their profit share artificially above the fair market level. (As you suggest, employers want subcontractors but only want to pay employee rates to get them). The JG corrects all that.
I support a policy of full employment.
In the real world, in which I operate, I am well aware that no government can offer a job guartantee.
It’s as much a fantasy as much of neoliberalism. I dont do economic fantasies. I talk about what can be done. We really need to stop undermining MMT by doing anything else.
Richard, In your “Time to end the House of Windsor” post you list a set of bullet points which sum up exactly what needs to be done to create a real democracy here, or anywhere else.
I know it was off the top of your head and it’s not in the most ideal order.
But re-written Sun-style it’d make a great poster, and a great T-shirt.
And if it was then licensed to any political party, or organisation which supports and campaigns for such a fundamentally important aim – I mean, the Greens have close on 200,000 members – I’d buy one and wear it with pride.
They’d sell like hot cakes at Glastonbury!
What we want now
1. A written constitution
2. An end to monarchy
3. An elected head of state
4. A House of Commons elected by proportional representation
5. An elected, regionally representative Senate
6. State-funded political parties
7. A ban on corporate donations
8. Strict limits on individual donations
9. Proper regulation of think tanks and lobbyists
10. Proper controls on the media
11. An end to the honours system
Democracy without privilege.
Power for people.
Funding the future.
Couldn’t organised action be eg boycotting Amazon…or only paying a percentage of your water bill. Consumers acting in unison are powerful.
Boycott Amazon for usre.
I would never suggest theft, which is what refusal to pay a bill amounts to.