This is where the betrayal goes further than what came before. Because there was an implicit hope that things would be better, simply by default, by removing the corrupt Tories. And yet despite the bar being so appallingly low, Labour have found a way to take cruelty to a whole new level.
It'd be almost tolerable if people just abandoned labour / the democrats / etc en masse but so many are so committed to riding that shit into the mountainside making it almost impossible to get anyone in who would actually push things in the right direction on any sort of a reasonable timescale
The political system itself plays a pivotal role in that respect. FPTP ensures continuity and locks out any potential of transformative change. The electorate becomes disillusioned, turn out rates continue to plummet and that continues to work in favour of the main political parties.
Of course but pointing to that and throwing our hands up is like pointing to money in politics — the people in a position to fix it are specifically disinterested in doing so and wouldn’t If we insist on predicating doing anything on fixing that then we’re just proper fucked.
It would be part of several things that need to happen in attempts to arrest the continued decline. Even if in the unlikely event of a progressive party forming a gov’t, they’d still be subject to the same forces driving policy right now.
If that and other things 「 need to happen 」 then you’re essentially declaring defeat without even trying. Fuck that.
Not at all, nothing is impossible. But at the same time you have to accept reality and the mountain to climb as things are now. History dictates that the efforts of the right will implode as it’s driven by ego’s.
History absolutely does not dictate that it will implode spontaneously - it took so much work and so many lives to cause that to happen Nobody said anything was easy.
Let me apologise, I should have been more specific stating recent history. And of course, even then right wing populism doesn’t just implode of it’s own accord, it does so under the scrutiny applied by those fighting it. Even from a decade ago, these are different times with complex challenges.