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That depends how fussy you are about the company you keep.While the rest of Europe were slagging off the new top man in the US, Farage was popping in for a chat. Like him or loathe him it is impressive.
That depends how fussy you are about the company you keep.While the rest of Europe were slagging off the new top man in the US, Farage was popping in for a chat. Like him or loathe him it is impressive.
For a "Blairite traitor" Angela Eagle talks a lot of sense:
It brings to an end seventy years of US global leadership and ushers in a dangerous new world disorder.
Then we saw it writ large in Trump’s campaign. If downright lies and conspiracy theories are propagated with such impunity - indeed, if they are rewarded with stunning electoral success - then all objective reality and integrity in public discourse is destroyed. The danger is then that democracy itself then cannot long survive unscathed.
Welcome to the age of the American demagogue.
Even a narrative that matches the Man in the High Castle is looking possible now.
I read that in the summer! Scary stuff. It also shows how people will believe anything if the lie is big enough.
i am curious: who paid for that trip? surely it wasn't an offical political visit. i am also baffled that farage seem to wield so much ideological and persuasive power but is unable to translate that into any kind of electoral victories.
i read that as a symbolic personification of the problem. it does nothing to help us think about and resolve the matter. if this issue is, as she claims, that people can be so easily persuaded by what to her are such obvious lies, then what does she make of a culture that believes in angels, denies climate change, pushes for the teaching of intellignet design and villifies and/or marginalizes intellectuals like noam chomsky and julian assange? is there no relationship here? a simple villification of trump does not address the root causes. it may be good as a temporary venting of anger/frustration, but it is no better than his tactics as a long term solution.
vuk.
Assange is an intellectual now? He's a hacker, a publisher and an activist, but to put him in the same league as Chomsky seems eccentric.
Not really an intellectual either as an intellectual could have thought his way out of the hole he has dug for himself.
i don't think anyone presenting outlandish theories about pence taking over power (especially when doing so with such confidence) is in a position to comment on what is intelligent political analysis.
vuk.
Actually, I agree with a lot of that.to be fair, i agree with most of what she is "describing", but it is hardly insightful, which is what a writer should strive for in an opinion piece. i am also more that a bit put off by this bit in the opening:
really? offensive, imperialist sentiment aside, and even if we skip over korea, vietnam, nicaragua and many others to the GWB iraq fiasco, how can this be taken as anything than ideological propaganda? is she suffering from a slightly different flavour of fascist nostalgia? the good old days when america was perfect?
correct, but i keep coming back to the wholesale "establishment" lying that has been going for a long time -- it's a lot more cunning, polished and without brazen surface vulgarity. it is a misrepresentation of actual political objectives so horrible that, as pilger points out, ends up creating a "trump". a false prophet who can point to a massive deception.
i read that as a symbolic personification of the problem. it does nothing to help us think about and resolve the matter. if this issue is, as she claims, that people can be so easily persuaded by what to her are such obvious lies, then what does she make of a culture that believes in angels, denies climate change, pushes for the teaching of intellignet design and villifies and/or marginalizes intellectuals like noam chomsky and julian assange? is there no relationship here? a simple villification of trump does not address the root causes. it may be good as a temporary venting of anger/frustration, but it is no better than his tactics as a long term solution.
vuk.
I think you are a comfy white sexist serial point scorer whom has given up almost nothing for his "ideologies" and who thinks he is adored and admired with his glibness and you have very little going in your favour. A voyeur at best. An appropriator of fake Anarchy and free software philosophy as a ideal. You are not even disgusting to me.