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"The Conservative victory in the UK election was driven by hatred of a
broken political process inflamed by disinformation and media cynicism,
argues Adam Ramsay of openDemocracy. Britain’s prime minister made
politics awful, then asked people to vote it away.
The recent UK election was a quarrel about the character of politics. On
the one hand, the Labour Party argued that it can be used for good, ‘for
the many’. They promised to transform lives and communities, to take
action on climate change and poverty. The Conservative Party,
conversely, claimed that politics is bad. They promised to banish it
from your life, to ‘get Brexit done’, so that we can all forget about it
and get on with Christmas shopping.
The Conservative strategy was, therefore, simple: wage war on the
political process, on trust, and on truth. Ensure the whole experience
is miserable, bewildering and stressful, then ask voters to make it go away.
At the heart of this strategy was a campaign of disinformation and deceit."
Via Glyn Moody.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
