Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "Boris Johnson is a pro-Migration Liberal. Immigration & Inflation Will Revive British Populism" video.

  1. The UK, like the US, has evolved into a uni-party system whereby the interests of the establishment are always broadly represented by the two main parties. This is more or less ensured each time by our two party FPTP electoral systems. What we have then is the illusion of choice and an essentially performative democracy where meaningfully challenging this status quo via the ballot box - as we should be able to do - has been removed. *Reposted as previous attempt was removed.
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  2. ​ @Thorsted67 It certainly makes one wonder. The sad fact is that most of us have good intentions and this is what we're trying to avoid and yet it appears that this is precisely what others are trying to invoke.
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  3. And so the existential battle between the Somewheres vs the Anywheres enters its next phase.
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  4. @robaudi20vTo rework a well-known phrase, 'never attribute to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by complacency or c*ck up'. I really admire his use of temperate constructive language there. Trying to give the people largely responsible for this the benefit of the doubt. Not least because to imagine that what is happening is actually a diabolical contrivance is unconscionable for most of us.
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  5. I've certainly heard a lot, yes. I'm really still trying to process it. Is it just a scenario that we're sleepwalking into out of complacency or apathy or are there genuinely dastardly transnational 'plans' afoot? 'Capitalism' is supposedly about prosperous, dynamic free markets, decentralized power structures, social mobility, continual investment for profit and protecting individual freedoms whereas it has provably delivered monopolies, oligopolies, cronyism, increased financialization, state approved usury, unimaginable debt levels, endless regulation, economic stagnation, sh*t public services and decaying infrastructure plus fewer individual freedoms over the decades not more. Whilst it sounds idealistic, genuine democracy and accountability is still our best and only hope for pushing back against this slow motion creeping technocratic coup, but I'm starting to see that option gradually ebbing away. I see unsettling parallels and connections with our politics there and, like I said, facing up to the horror of the contrived realities you clearly believe are happening is easier said than done not least because of the inevitable consequences that will come with that if enough people do.
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