Looks like the U.K. just re-elected Cameron and the Conservatives by a big margin. Pretty amazing. Austerity rules. Is this a global epidemic of masochism?
Republicans here in the U.S. taking over Congress. Faux liberals in France and Geece. I've never seen so many people vote so heavily against their interest in my life.
Looks like things will have to get a lot, lot, worse before there's any chance of them getting better and by that time, it won't be as a result of the polls, but probably bloody revolution.
There will be scapegoats as always but the elite will do their level bast to shift the blame either domestically or internationally. They have had millennia to practice this and now it honed to fine edge.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is blame it on China.
> Is this a global epidemic of masochism?
ReplyDeleteIt's called accelerationism. Why vote the lesser evil? I'm personally divided between Hillary, Jeb, and Cthulhu.
I've never seen so many people vote so heavily against their interest in my life.
ReplyDeleteI did this for years, unwittingly, because I was out of paradigm.
Is this a global epidemic of masochism?
It's what happened to Kansas.
Everywhere it seem, Jill. Everywhere.
ReplyDeleteRight. I meant to suggest that it started in Kansas. ;)
Delete“Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time” ~ Harry Truman
ReplyDeleteIf Osborne does what he plans to do, and isn't just lying through his teeth, then the UK will either have a massive debt fuelled boom that will end in disaster or it will choke as the spending is turned off and the infrastructure decays.
ReplyDeleteYou need to give the right the confidence to smash the train into the wall at full speed.
But you have to be ready with policies that will help the survivors.
And that's the problem. The Left is stuffed full of one world global agreement idealists that won't shut up and leave.
From my admittedly anecdotal observations, Labour didn't have anything of substance to say.
ReplyDeleteMilliband and Labour ran as austerity lite, whether they realized it or not..
A kindler gentler version of Tories.
Why vote for a cheap knock off when you can vote for the real thing?
All of the fear mongering regarding the UK's austerity and how it will destroy it's economy by the MMT crowd seems to be completely wrong. If you look at a graph comparing US and UK GDP growth rates they are extremely similar.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnbc.com/id/102666061
"Growth figures have picked up in the country and unemployment numbers have plummeted to six-and-a-half year lows."