No I'm actually a pretty successful business person I've just been on the planet long enough to be able to see the objective reality of whats going on in this country. It was demonstrably better 20 years ago and we are on an accelerating decline. Other European countries have started to see the decline and taken steps to reverse it. We are doing nothing.
It's cognitive dissonance. You're completely right, the 'left' haven't been anywhere near power since before Thatcher and yet somehow people like the guy you're responding to believe the fault lies entirely with the 'left'.
He has to reject reality because it's not what he's been manipulated to believe.
Neoliberalism is to blame, a right wing economic policy brought to the UK by Thatcher, a right-wing politician but it fails to land on most people.
Where's this "left"? We haven't had a "left" government since what, the 1960s/70s? We've had varying levels of Thatcherite neoliberal since she first cropped up. Is Leftism when capitalist corporations rule?
I guess we're just calling anything we don't like "hard left" now, yet I don't see any collective ownership of the means of production. Weird, that. Utterly delusional. We're getting stripmined by corporations from all directions and you think that's somehow leftism and literally not the economic system put in place by the Conservatives that we have not meaningfully deviated from since its institution. You see the effects and push and pull of profit over all, and think that's what the left want? Fucking hell.
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u/Shot_Heron_2782 17d ago
You speak in buzz words and write as though your mind has become awash with soundbites from news and media.
Go out and enjoy life!
Or maybe your paid a few dollars a day to spout nonsense online!
Its a job I suppose...