Tommy Tainant
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Why does the right keep pretending the left runs Britain? | Lea Ypi
Inspiring a fear of leftwing takeover helps those who have secured political control to keep it, says Lea Ypi, a professor in political theory
www.theguardian.com
“There are many, there are many many, we see them all the time,” President Trump said in his latest Republican national convention speech, warning about the “wild-eyed Marxists” to whom Joe Biden would be unable to stand up, and who would constitute “a Trojan horse for socialism” in the United States. In the United Kingdom, the spectre of a Marxist takeover is also invoked across the rightwing spectrum, including the attorney general. Conservative commentators like to claim that the left in Britain “controls almost every institution”. What exactly is going on here?
I think its just ignorance. People who know nothing and go nowhere who are fed a diet of bullshit from narrowly based sources. Im a commie apparently, but I have spent my working life working for large corporations. I own my home and have a nice portfolio that I manage myself. I vote for my party of choice, I read what I want and say what I want.
The only organisations I have ever paid membership to are the Jane Austen Society and the Wrexham Supporters Trust. I subscribe to Private Eye and my favourite films are all pretty much American.
I support the NHS because I believe in a society that protects the old and the weak. And yet that makes me a "commie bastard". vulgar comment removed Tommy Tainant
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