For all Russell Brand’s platitudes about rejecting the presiding establishment, he ends up settling for one of the two major parties. Ed Miliband’s Labour, apparently because they are slightly less horrible than the Tories.
This is a consistent pattern with fake revolutions. There is an underlying dissatisfaction amongst the young, and in racial and cultural minorities that cannot be turned around through traditional politicking. So what the powers that be do is co-opt this grumbling. If they’re smart they can make the same old rubbish sound like a spontaneous, grass-roots uprising. In the end, the naive members of this movement vote for whom they see as the less-bad candidate.
It happens nearly every election cycle. In the United States from 2008 to 2015, we have seen the rise (and fall) of two ‘grassroots’ movements: from the left, the Occupy movement and from the right, the Tea Party.
They both started out as genuine disgruntlement towards the ruling class – the conspiracy between big government and big business against the people – with the Tea Party focussing more on big government, and the Occupy movement focussing more on big business. Full story...
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This is a consistent pattern with fake revolutions. There is an underlying dissatisfaction amongst the young, and in racial and cultural minorities that cannot be turned around through traditional politicking. So what the powers that be do is co-opt this grumbling. If they’re smart they can make the same old rubbish sound like a spontaneous, grass-roots uprising. In the end, the naive members of this movement vote for whom they see as the less-bad candidate.
It happens nearly every election cycle. In the United States from 2008 to 2015, we have seen the rise (and fall) of two ‘grassroots’ movements: from the left, the Occupy movement and from the right, the Tea Party.
They both started out as genuine disgruntlement towards the ruling class – the conspiracy between big government and big business against the people – with the Tea Party focussing more on big government, and the Occupy movement focussing more on big business. Full story...
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