devilman wrote:
A friend of mine posting on Facebook -
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It's how a great many "mainstream" people feel, myself included. Corbyn's a laughable relic from the '60s and '70s, and accordingly was a national laughing stock just weeks ago - for this very reason.
Two things have changed: May conducted an appallingly inept election campaign, and Corbyn promised the 'yoof' vote free tuition fees and unicorns (which as I've said, and to be fair, is entirely fair game politically speaking and intrinsically no different to Cameron's triple lock pensions etc.). A week is a very long time in politics indeed. But the fundamentally fuck-witted nature of hard left politics certainly haven't changed.
I'm the last person on Earth who wants to live in an echo chamber but after 10 years or more of this, here as elsewhere, I read that post by Malc or whoever it was where pretty much everyone's politics here lay somewhere between Trotsky and making hair shirts - and Kern's general election thread where almost everyone said they'd be voting Labour (despite protestations about "hardy anyone supports Labour here" over the years (lol)), and almost all the fight went out of me and I very rarely can be bothered with it now. I mean, in the nicest possible way, it's never going to be any different irrespective of whatever proof or persuasive argument, or anything else.
If I sound disappointed and depressed, well, frankly that's because I am; as someone who has voted Labour, Libdem and Tory all within a 30 year voting lifetime, I just can't imagine holding precisely the same, unmodified, impervious to the outside world views that I did in my teens before I'd seen anything of the world or humanity at large; had experienced human relationships, parenthood, running businesses... and half a lifetime of talking to, and listening to other people older and wiser than I.
I suppose there's the whole mutual reinforcement-and-comfort thing going on within these uber-polarised groups, be it matters of politics or nationalism for that matter, but for me I just find the whole thing bloody depressing.
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