Comments by "JMB" (@Vulcanerd) on "Rwanda Rebellion, Reparations And Romance | Pod Save The Uk" video.
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It's fascinating to compare British politics with American politics. What Nish said about how people couldn't care less about the clown show going on at Downing Street when so many British folks are more concerned with paying for heating bills, food, etc, and the US where the economy is, by all metrics (though maybe not felt quite as keenly by the average American) on the upswing in terms of inflation, wages, etc, but the heavy influence of right wing media has taken a hold of the narrative for so many people that 60-70m Americans would still vote for a man who tried to blackmail Zelenskyy for political dirt (illegal), was accused of 10 cases of obstruction of justice by special investigator and former FBI agent Mueller in an official government report, nearly 30 women have accused him of sexual misconduct/assault, consistently sides with right wing, fascist strongmen like Putin, Erdogan, Kim, etc, tried to illicitly negotiate the lifting of Russian sanctions even before he was elected, left Peshmerga allies high and dry and for dead, taken millions from foreign governments while in office along with his family who also received, billions in some cases, stole crates and crates of top secret, nuclear documents - some of which are now missing - and, oh yeah, incited an insurrection against the US, its citizens, the government and attempted to overturn the election across multiple states like Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, etc...
But, if you have a powerful, loud enough speaker, you can still convince a massive number of people regardless of if the economy or things are looking so much better than before (at least in the case of the US) and Clive is absolutely spot on when he says that we are facing fascists and fascism already. I would be curious to see just exactly what Germans thought and saw in Germany in the early 1930s... Feels like we never see it coming until the boot is on our necks, but a large portion of people are sounding the alarm, but it's so very disheartening to see so many not express any sense of urgency or alarm at what's happening beneath our very noses.
I hope that the UK can correct its course b/c a lot of what you're experiencing feels like what conservative politicians have done in the US as well. Erode support and finances for the post office (the NHS in the case of the UK) and, in general, gut various institutions that would otherwise be helpful to all Americans then point to it as an example of how government can't work or is dysfunctional or otherwise privatize government functions that will, in turn, be motivated solely by profit margins. The time to act is now, not when the boot is on all of our necks.
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