benefits so we made them NRPF. Then the problem was 'free riding the NHS' so we bring in health surcharge. Then it was 'no control of our borders' so you leave the EU. Then it was 'not enough council homes' so you put them in hotels. Etc etc etc. The right talk tough, you try and 'neutralise the >
issue' by moving towards them and they just move further right. After fifteen iterations we're now at 'the right are calling for mass deportations' and labour are still trying to 'address people's reasonable concerns'. It's insanity!
The real problem is the massive apparatus designed to exploit people's most base tendencies by roiling them up to incandescent fury over spurious grievances, in order to gull them into voting for parties and policies they could never be persuaded to support on their own actual merits.
You can't win this game. You can only lose quickly, or lose slowly.
[If you're reading this and thinking 'that man sounds like his football team just got cuffed in a home derby' then congratulations and fuck you]