baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
I think what it is, is this: considering the vast amounts of emotional energy that a lot of people all over the world pour into progressive and radical causes, how come, almost wherever you look, mainstream politics is taking a turn for the reactionary and authoritarian?
Because reactionary points of view are backed by enormous amounts of corporate money and media coverage. That one is simple. People aren't stupid, but they are enormously susceptible to being convinced to believe things that are antithetical to their own interests.
Corbyn is 20 points behind, but his policies are enormously popular, admit even right wing media outlets. You can't attribute that gap solely to Corbyn's ineptitude, which is real but in no way more important than the ineptitude of the Tory changeover last summer, for example, or the all-round ridiculousness of Theresa May's blatant lying and U-turns.
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