Farage and Truss up Trump’s arse reminds me of Churchill on appeasers - “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” They can’t control the crocodile, and the crocodile doesn’t give a shit about them. Please god Harris beats him
Imperialists are going to support imperialists. Until they are actively trying to control the same space, that is.
They indulged Putin, despite his invasions of Georgia and Crimea, committed state-sponsored murder on UK soil, and shot civilian aircraft out of the sky… right up until he put the territorial claims of Europe under direct threat.
Before we worry about what Trump might do if he gets in, anyone who’s interested in global cohesion should be aghast at how the unquestioned indulgence of Netanyahu is dismantling all the accomplishments and institutional structures of the United Nations, just to buy him another few weeks in office.
The attraction of voting right is indeed puzzling to those of us who think we have a grip on reality. To understand this I spend a lot of time listening to right wing talk shows on You Tube and rather less reading right wing material. In the US, the appeal of the right seems to be an adoption of the view that liberal moral thinking has allowed the US to sink into a moral morass where people who don't work get handouts and those that do pay taxes, where the identitarian left would undermine Christian family values America, motherhood and fatherhood. Where the state has been captured by left forces who want to spread a a socialist takeover denying people independence, to keep the value that they earn, to limit or remove their right to self
defence by carrying a gun; which cares more about foreigners than Americans and in the process has sold American workers down the river by exporting their jobs under agreements like NAFTA, and to the Chinese; which has a habit of trying to sort out other countries self inflicted problems at the cost of the lives of US servicemen and, like all the others freeloading on America, none seem to be grateful.
Some are in total denial about the sort of person Trump is, but many others think that this big picture overrides what they see as the relative trivialities of keeping
classified documents, buying off a news story and lying in business; and they believe the Republican lie that the 2020 election was rigged.
This is an alternative framing of the world which is impenetrable by the left. It gained roots, because in one decade the democratic party under Clinton became the party of business and big money and in another became a party of the oppression Olympics of intersectionality. In Hilary Clinton it managed to combine a candidate who embodied big business, big state and wokery.
In Britain, the left has so little credibility, that to stand a chance in an election, the rule seems to be to say nothing at all.
The root of all this is that the left has to some extent in reality but largely in public perception, abandoned its representation of ordinary people and the right has rushed into the gap. We may know that the forces behind this are those of an anti democratic, anarcho capitalist sector of finance which wants to extend the total freedom for the wealthy and the discipline of workers. But a big chunk of the electorate just thinks of the left as "not me."
This is no basis for future political success or any defence against Farage, Trump and their ilk.
Farage and Truss up Trump’s arse reminds me of Churchill on appeasers - “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” They can’t control the crocodile, and the crocodile doesn’t give a shit about them. Please god Harris beats him
It's good that Harris has quickly gone onto the front foot, pointing out that her work as a DA makes her familiar with Trump's 'type'. Go, Kamala!
Imperialists are going to support imperialists. Until they are actively trying to control the same space, that is.
They indulged Putin, despite his invasions of Georgia and Crimea, committed state-sponsored murder on UK soil, and shot civilian aircraft out of the sky… right up until he put the territorial claims of Europe under direct threat.
Before we worry about what Trump might do if he gets in, anyone who’s interested in global cohesion should be aghast at how the unquestioned indulgence of Netanyahu is dismantling all the accomplishments and institutional structures of the United Nations, just to buy him another few weeks in office.
The attraction of voting right is indeed puzzling to those of us who think we have a grip on reality. To understand this I spend a lot of time listening to right wing talk shows on You Tube and rather less reading right wing material. In the US, the appeal of the right seems to be an adoption of the view that liberal moral thinking has allowed the US to sink into a moral morass where people who don't work get handouts and those that do pay taxes, where the identitarian left would undermine Christian family values America, motherhood and fatherhood. Where the state has been captured by left forces who want to spread a a socialist takeover denying people independence, to keep the value that they earn, to limit or remove their right to self
defence by carrying a gun; which cares more about foreigners than Americans and in the process has sold American workers down the river by exporting their jobs under agreements like NAFTA, and to the Chinese; which has a habit of trying to sort out other countries self inflicted problems at the cost of the lives of US servicemen and, like all the others freeloading on America, none seem to be grateful.
Some are in total denial about the sort of person Trump is, but many others think that this big picture overrides what they see as the relative trivialities of keeping
classified documents, buying off a news story and lying in business; and they believe the Republican lie that the 2020 election was rigged.
This is an alternative framing of the world which is impenetrable by the left. It gained roots, because in one decade the democratic party under Clinton became the party of business and big money and in another became a party of the oppression Olympics of intersectionality. In Hilary Clinton it managed to combine a candidate who embodied big business, big state and wokery.
In Britain, the left has so little credibility, that to stand a chance in an election, the rule seems to be to say nothing at all.
The root of all this is that the left has to some extent in reality but largely in public perception, abandoned its representation of ordinary people and the right has rushed into the gap. We may know that the forces behind this are those of an anti democratic, anarcho capitalist sector of finance which wants to extend the total freedom for the wealthy and the discipline of workers. But a big chunk of the electorate just thinks of the left as "not me."
This is no basis for future political success or any defence against Farage, Trump and their ilk.