Re: John Harris - "What is the politics of complete exhaustion?" Archived Message
Posted by johnlilburne on June 26, 2023, 10:48 am, in reply to "John Harris - "What is the politics of complete exhaustion?""
If the Corbyn Project was about Restoring Hope and energising people with a sense of their own agency, its failure is partly down to the Guardian and hacks like Harris. People probably do feel helpless. The Brexit fantasy of 'taking back control' has been fully exposed as the lie it was. Harris's job is to promote and reinforce the narrative of 'learned helplessness'. He complements The Starmer Project which is about Destroying Hope. Desperate people will cling to anything. People will tell themselves that Labour surely can't be worse than the Tories even though they don't really believe it.
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