Re: I still lean slightly towards an anticlimax Archived Message
Posted by Sinister Burt on December 10, 2019, 5:57 pm, in reply to "I still lean slightly towards an anticlimax"
While i used to find something to consider in your posts on this topic despite disagreeing, at the moment i find them about as worthwhile as the content-free tory smearing in the rest of the media, and so tend to ignore them (apart from this one) - still read your non-corbyn-slagging posts though (probably skip the abortion ones too actually) Anyone who looks at the current situation and looks at corbyn compared to anyone we've had a chance of electing in the last half century, and then looks at the undeniable massive media/establishment bias (more than i've ever seen) - anyone who looks at all that and doesn't decide to back corbyn is seriously myopic imv. It's plain to see how much the uk 'establishment' wants corbyn not to win (not to mention other countries) - i've said it before: it seems our establishment as a whole can work with brexit or remain, but not with socialism (or even social democracy) - stoppping that takes priority for them as far as i can see. I don't get why anyone would pass up the obvious opportunity to chuck a spanner in their works (you may answer 'brexit was that'; maybe so, but doesn;t stop it being clear that the threat of corbynism is even more worrying for them right now) The hour is late, we don't have time for a 'proper' anarchist/socialist revolution (or whatever would pass muster) - i need economic justice now, i need a council house now, i need my disabled relatives not to live in fear of more cuts now, i need my 'scumbag' friends not to struggle with punitive benefits systems etc. (This is selfish - i also want the planet and the nhs to be saved and everyone else who needs it to be better off too, but my own tribe's livelihood looms large as it's very precarious). Whatever you think of corbyn and/or our democratic system, if he loses, all those things listed go the bad way - this election will have real implications on my and people i know's lives - not some political theory (yes i am aware how bad it currently looks, but there's still hope)
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