I’ve spent the last few (seven) years lamenting how the Irish people have been small minded, stupid, and played by a neoliberal media orthodoxy into blaming public services pay and spending for… fucked if I understand what exactly, but it’s the ONE THING that they seem to agree on.
It’s time to turn with relief and exasperation on the English public who have managed to swallow their neoliberal press and toed the line. Somehow Dave has managed to be portrayed, and accepted, as something other than the actual stupidest human being to have lurched from a long boozy lunch with his public school chums into high public office. The guy makes Bush look like an autodidact polymath. And somehow the grotesque stupidity of “austerity” AKA throwing away all that was good about and that our ancestors fought for in the West.
Just read this by the way http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sally-Heathcote-Suffragette-Mary-Talbot/dp/0224097865/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1431613755&sr=1-1&keywords=sally+heathcote+suffragette and we all should. It reminds us that resistance to this kind of autocracy requires courage. They will not respond to moral arguments as they don’t care about right and wrong. The wealthy elite are sociopaths akin to career criminals who play the law as a game: if they get away with it, they’re innocent, sure somebody else is doing something worse anyway, and if they didn’t do it somebody else would.
