Politics never attracts anything from a position of intelligence.
What is the intelligence of anybody who voted for the current Labour party? This is a party which so far has taken benefits away from pensioners, soon the disabled and has otherwise increased taxes upon businesses at a time when they're claiming to be a party of growth? What on earth did people really vote for if they were intelligent??
If you look at the choice of this Labour or the Tories then is populism actually just inevitable? Or are you saying that people should be banned from voting or should social media itself be banned? All I see is that Trump was the inevitable outcome of a political system that does not work, Reform are similarly a product of mainstream party failure, but yes social media plays a part but that vacuum already existed and it's spreading throughout Europe.
I don't know why people can't see that it's not always about Trump because there are not 75m MAGA nutters. Sometimes it is about rejecting the utter calamity of the alternative which was represented best by the last president who looked old, ill and more often than not lost.
I'm pushing 40 - the older I get, I'm not sure the public should be allowed to vote on what colour pens the government get to use.
I say this as someone that was routinely derided for NOT voting as I didn't have a party / candidate that I wanted to vote for (not the least-worst option).
We are nowhere near well enough informed to make decisions and we are not voting for the same things (region / family / future / planet / world).
I noticed the other day my spelling and maths (which was shite to begin with) has probably only gotten worse over the last 20+ years as I regularly use Excel and Outlook etc with work. I know that I don't have to spell everything correctly as it will be critiqued and highlighted by AI allowing me to amend.
I think we live in a bubble where we still assume that people in public office are doing so because they genuinely want to make a difference, make things better (regardless of their political views). This is outdated bollocks as a general starting point which needs updating and I'm not saying that there aren't genuine cases - I think the likes of Raynor and Jess Philips et al DO genuinely believe they can make a positive difference.
For instance, let's say someone as unlikeable as Reece-Mogg starte running a more central policy as he manoeuvred to take a run at PM in 4-8 years time.
Evening his policies were really appealing across the board to rich and poor alike, you would have to be hugely sceptical of the why and the how, what is motivations are and whether it is likely to ever actually be implemented. We cannot trust any of the the fuckers and we are still too passive when we have been fucked over or lied to.
I'd love to be able to mock America for being stupid but we are just as fucking dense in this country (see continuously voting Tory for 14 straight years and leaving the EU).
Fuck this off - on to the derby........ :-)
