RE: Buy & sell call21 Nov 2017 23:57
Ooo politics. Go on then, you've twisted my arm... Hehe, love that song. Very clever. Loved the juxtapositioning of headlines and it manages to subtly tear the Mail - my Granch's daily rage generator - to pieces without attacking its readers, which is where the Left keep scoring own goals imho. Nothing is more irritating to Daily Mail readers than some condescending fart knocker with an arts degree and a Middle English accent i.e. Me, telling them they don't understand. You have to win the arguments. The Right are masterful at exploiting the Left's blindspots, mainly the cognitive dissonance that exists in the idea that gender and sexual equality are seamlessly compatible with religious tolerance. The Left are avidly for all of these things, without recognising that some religions, with regional variance of course, take a contradictory stance on gender and sexual equality and (other) religious tolerance. The Left cannot deal with this blind spot because to do so would be political suicide by Twitter/the Media; acknowledge the schism from one perspective and you're homophobic or sexist, acknowledge the schism from the other perspective and you're '[Religion]phobic'. All equal career death for Leftists. The other main blind spot is born of the conflation of Immigration control and racism. The Right have cleverly crystallised this idea, so that no vocal Left winger can now openly favour firm immigration control without fear of being called a racist. It's just too easy for the Right. I have some very liberal friends who advocate open borders, but the facts are that while there exists gross inequality between countries in Europe and other countries e.g. African, those very sensible, courageous and desperate people will migrate here in numbers and risk their lives to do so. It seems utterly logical to me, given our finite public resources and housing that there exists a limit to the number of migrants a country can safely accommodate / integrate. The Left need to recognise the way they are being played, get savvy and come up with a strategy to fight back. Not easy but Corbyn's playing good dodgeball and sticking to the real issues. But they really need to bring the working class with them - and that is clearly happening - and that means recognising cognitive dissonances, following through on Brexit, immigration control, Supreme Court as top dog, fix public services, esp nhs, police and schools via fairer taxation and awesome trade deals. If Corbyn gets a go, I'd be quite optimistic about things, however every vested interest from the Global 0.01% will be manoeuvring to ensure he fails.
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