Leaders such as Trump and Orbán could only be effectively opposed, she said, by ditching a “legalistic, technical, technocratic approach” in favor of “something for the electorate to be excited about”.
Leaders such as Trump and Orbán could only be effectively opposed, she said, by ditching a “legalistic, technical, technocratic approach” in favor of “something for the electorate to be excited about”.
I agree with basically all of that. Problem is USA and UK are essentially 2 party systems, so taking control of either is the only option to gain power.
For some reason UK voted against having a more democratic system, which is so stupid moronic idiotic that I don’t have words.
Both countries need to modernize their democracies, and until that has happened the only option is to gain the power to do it.
But yes the media are right wing too, because all media is owned by billionaires, so there is no such thing as fair press in politics.
UK has the BBC, but that too is controlled by right wing powers, so although it’s better than American media, it’s still mostly on the side of the right wing establishment when it counts.
It’s a shitty situation in both places, but democracy is not something that is given, it is something that needs to be fought for. And even when we have it, we need to actively preserve it.
Oh, I’m not saying that it’s not possible or that there is any other option, I’m saying “Learn from the errors of the British leftwingers when they tried to do it there”.
Be prepared for the dirtiest of dirty tricks and the entirety of the Press revealing itself as nothing more than a Propaganda machine for the Wealthy Elites and their political minions.
Mind you, at this point and with the Israeli Genocide turning into the XXI century Holocaust and after the insane overuse of the “anti-semite” slander against people merelly speaking against the mass murder of children by the Zionists, it’s doubtful that using accusations of “anti-semitism” as basis of their dirty tricks campaign would actually work (though you can see that they’re sorta trying it against the guy in New York).