Re: Observer poll gives tories 12 pt lead - Another poll gives tories only 1 pt lead... Archived Message
Posted by Sinister Burt on September 15, 2019, 3:49 pm, in reply to "Re: Observer poll gives tories 12 pt lead - Another poll gives tories only 1 pt lead..."
It's like that mark twain quote about being uninformed vs misinformed. I think it's pretty clear that if corbyn's economic policies were presented fairly without all the personal smearing and non-policy content added, they'd likely have got a majority in 2017 - just like chomsky always used to go on about the american public having majorities in favour of socialist policies when divorced from the political tribe (70%+ still want free healthcare). It's very difficult in the current media hegemony to even imagine how that fair represenatation could happen (they;'d certainly have a job finding enough non-corbyn-hating journos for a while). Of course, as we all know, this isn't by accident and only happens with continuous collective effort on behalf of the privileged classes (conscious or otherwise) and their compliant media - they're running to stand still - 'their' main current default strategy against the asymmetry of numbers generated by inequality seems to be try to use fascism and other right wing ideas (or just brexit itelf) to divide us against each other across class lines, or to push us back into the arms of good old 'moderate' liberalism - it's socialism or barbarism, one way or the other. The hollowness of the promise of liberal democracy is not a reason to abandon democracy as an idea, but to fight for it be implemented properly - the bourgeois/liberal promise of democracy was hardly even delivered by them anyway (they'd talk with disgust about the masses), until the struggles of radicals and socialists forced them to give the little bit we have now. Socialism was always about actually trying to meaningfully implement the ideals of equality and freedom liberals said they were for, but always found convenient exceptions to (or just twisted into freedom of capital before everything else).
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