- George We-Are-Now-The-Resistance Monbiot seems determined to help perpetuate the fraud... Archived Message
Posted by brooks
on December 13, 2019, 5:14 pm, in reply to "Ominous sign straight away "
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Here he is on Democracy Now today NERMEEN SHAIKH: George, can you talk, though, speculate about what you think accounts for the scale of the victory? I mean, many thought that Boris Johnson would win this election, but not by such a major landslide. GEORGE MONBIOT: Well, I think there are several factors. One is that they have learned from Trump, they have learned from Modi, they have learned from the referendum result in the U.K. three years ago, basically, cheating and lying wins, particularly when you can weaponize it through social media on a massive scale with unaccountable dark ads where nobody knows what anybody else is seeing. That is a highly effective and highly dangerous tactic. And they have refined it and refined it, so that it is now winning elections all over the world. These are really perilous times for democracy. We also had an opposition in the form of the Labour Party that was quite internally divided. That didn’t help at all. It failed for far too long to articulate a clear position on Brexit. It failed to deal with some of its own crises, particularly the anti-Semitism crisis, which it should have moved on much more swiftly and firmly than it did. But we also — you know, it was really swimming against the tide, particularly the power of the billionaire press in this country, the enormous amount of funding poured into the Conservative Party, and a series of other democratic — undemocratic forces that align with the radical right now, which has taken over the Conservative Party. https://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/13/uk_election_boris_johnson_jeremy_corbyn Once again, pretending the fake crisis ginned up by his own paper among others to keep Corbyn out of power is real, and pretending he and his colleagues at the Guardian are not part of the elite "billionaire press" and not part of the "lying" that put Johnson into power. What a fraud. |