This must rank amongst the most intense examples of peak Conservorona stupidity. In a week kicked off by the self contradictory jibber jabber of our Mainstream Media Prime Minister, the Tories have no decided that estate agents perform essential work. What the actual fuck. There is nothing essential about them; they are vampires. Why couldn't people organise their own house sales and cut out the middle men, and do you want strangers tramping around your house during a pandemic?
Thought not.
But honestly, I think lockdown is on its last legs, and I don't see that with glee. Anything but. I think people are just giving up. This is an idea that would need constant encouragement. A supportive arm but instead we have a confused clown show motivated by its own need to push profit. This is how the crisis will transform, and I fear it will get ugly. I fear it will manifest into a sharp hard right challenge.
I'm referring to the fringe proto and neo fascists who are on the front line of fighting lockdown. Willing idiots for the capitalists. We know that in times of austerity fascism rises. Capitalism now faces an unprecedented crisis and so the shadow of austerity looms again. There are already protests threatened over here (much like the peacock displays of hostile desperation in the US). The police are responding likewise and this will get ugly. As the crisis evolves, mutating like its own virus, there is a strong chance it will turn into an ideological civil war. One that could further devolve, and all against a backdrop of Brexit. A country haunted by a flag.
This will need to be challenged on all fronts. We must not let ignorance take root. Not just the usual conspiracy peddlers; they are mundane by virtue of their ubiquity. Where there's a crisis, there's a confused and divisive interpretation of facts, seen through a filter of oppression. We are oppressed, but we must not let them divide us. Not along these petulant lines. Capitalism thrives on division. Socialism isn't a dirty word: it's a necessary condition for a free and fair society, and as things progress/worsen, authoritarianism will bring that increasingly into focus.
Now more than ever we must reject the trite hateful narrative of fascism. We are in lockdown, but in spirit we must remain international. Not globalist. You have more in common with a Syrian refugee, a North African migrant, or a Romanian cleaner than you do with the people they end up working for. You have more in common with them than you ever will with Boris Johnson, preening while he claps. His applause wont' pay your wages, it'll steal your votes so he can take more.
End this.
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