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Five years later, deceit is routine in our politics. written by Will Hutton
from article: After five years, the biggest casualties of Brexit are in plain sight. Integrity and decency in public life are crumbling. Because so much of the case for Brexit is false, the political modus operandi of the Brexiters, now dominating our political culture, has become a refusal to accept responsibility for mistakes, overclaiming, deceit and sometimes outright lies to justify the unjustifiable. Once the electorate can no longer trust what they are told, democratic debate is denied. We have been robbed of a core right of citizenship.
It is a form of coup, but with a cloud of nationalist hyperbole disguising the threat to parliamentary democracy. To hold power, or challenge it, in a democracy requires continual argument and discussion, the precondition of which is a commitment to truth-telling and a shared acceptance of facts, however differently they may be interpreted. Trash those preconditions and we inevitably slide into a universe of division and distrust impervious to rational argument. We are all belittled.
It is as the Brexit right wants. Brexit has given it a cause and a political coalition that leaves it more firmly in control of power than at any time since peak Thatcherism. It is not only partisan rightwing policies from the impending assault on public service broadcasting to the criminal failure to provide the additional teaching to compensate for Covid-induced teaching losses it is the gerrymandering that favours the Tory interest.
Voter suppression; rendering the Electoral Commission even more toothless; ensuring all trustees and chairs of public bodies are Conservative; weakening judicial review; abolishing the Fixed-term Parliaments Act; eliminating any proportionality in the voting system for mayors; not accepting the doctrine of ministerial accountability. And all couched in a language of defiant nationalism so that critics can be dismissed as unBritish friends of the foreigner and outriders for wokedom.
Will Hutton is an Observer columnist'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/27/case-for-brexit-built-on-lies-five-years-later-deceit-is-routine-in-our-politics
Some snipping has occurred. This is a long, worthwhile read that supports my own understanding
of all things Brexit.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)niyad
(113,336 posts)Scrivener7
(50,955 posts)joetheman
(1,450 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)without limbaugh central pro kremlin/trump messaging is going to suffer. they have split up his 600 stations to different replacements and none can do what limbaugh did and will be trying to outdo each other.
he bragged they were using his model in india and brazil's asshat dictator wannabe bolsanaro credited the "brazillian limbaugh" with his 'success' - a guy who broadcasts out of virginia! it's a model that the kremlin would find easy to influence - they probably make call screening software.....
Elessar Zappa
(14,004 posts)pay more attention to radio. Its killing us in rural areas.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)Their messaging has lagged behind, imo.
Jetheels
(991 posts)Who are ironically old school republicans.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)I haven't seen their more recent stuff.
Jetheels
(991 posts)I think Lincoln project understands that democracy requires an informed electorate.
Republicans understand it better than democrats. Although Republican information is mostly deception an example of which is the Obama birther conspiracy. Which trump used to swing himself big time onto the American political scene.
Democrats are at a disadvantage.
All republicans have to do to succeed is sow hate and lies, scream about problems that dont exist, and lay blame.
certainot
(9,090 posts)until it's done most of the analysts might as we'll be studying fish without water
GB_RN
(2,356 posts)Those behind tRump: Cambridge Analytica/the Mercers, Putin and Russias FSB (formerly known as the KGB) and GRU and Facebook/Zuckerberg.
Beatlelvr
(619 posts)In his books. Brexit was a practice run, a precursor to our 2016 election.
ananda
(28,866 posts)Russian intereference in nations' politics has made a very
ugly mess of our world.
William Seger
(10,778 posts)"... and we inevitably slide into a universe of division and distrust impervious to rational argument."
That's exactly what's happened to American politics in the last few decades, courtesy of the right-wing propaganda machine. It puts our democracy in serious jeopardy -- and that's been the intent all along.
TheRickles
(2,065 posts)zaj
(3,433 posts)NewHendoLib
(60,015 posts)Big money creating self-serving propaganda. What could possibly go wrong?
paleotn
(17,931 posts)to decouple from an England circling the bowl, headed for the hole. The final act in the once proud empire's decent from 2nd rate power to 3rd rate nobody. They believed the lies and did it to themselves.
LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)by the voters. He had lived outside of Britain too long and wasnt allowed to vote.
The next day, he was stunned by the results! How could they be that stupid?
But it was Putin.