Why we end up, whichever party, with the same corrupt policies and wars
If the world looks confusing to you, it is probably because you are voting for fake leftwing parties and watching fake TV news quoting fake experts
In political debates between left and right, what gets lost is this obvious point:
The powerful maintain their power through an insistence that change is dangerous. They want power structures unchanged because they developed those structures precisely to keep themselves rich and powerful. This is the starting point of rightwing ideologies.
Those without power can only help the weak and marginalised, end wars and genocide, stop the ecological destruction of the planet by changing these power structures. This is the starting point of leftwing ideologies.
There is a further point. By definition, the right has the power and money to bankroll parties, media, think-tanks that claim to be on the left but are actually there to prop up existing power structures that benefit the right. Over many decades the right has developed an unparalleled expertise in the dark arts of worming its ideas into our heads, manipulating us into believing black is white, up is down.
Even if it wished to, the left lacks any equivalent power.
If the world looks confusing to you, it is probably because you are falling for these kind of "political" deceptions. You are voting for fake leftwing parties, watching fake leftwing TV news and reading fake leftwing papers quoting fake experts.
We keep ending up with the same corrupt parties, the same dishonest policies, the same wars of empire because we cannot see past the right’s mind-games.
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"When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the
opposite direction is looked at as being crazy." TS Elliot.
"The powerful maintain their power through an insistence that change is dangerous. They want power structures unchanged because they developed those structures precisely to keep themselves rich and powerful. This is the starting point of rightwing ideologies."
Indeed. And this is why over the last 40 years or so, international neo-liberalism has used market-led privatisation to take over Western states; all the embedded power and knowledge accumulated over centuries is now a hub for a highly organised minority of maniacs to start wars, attack their own citizens; in short, to allow corporations and billionaires to control the structure of our everyday lives. People now have no say in any of this.
One Ring To Rule Them All. That is what these ghouls see the State as.
Thanks for another excellent piece, Jonathan.