I'm considering ending my participaton in the weekly Clap. At first it felt organic; a genuine message of solidarity. Sure we can't directly pay the nurses more and sort out the NHS (though we could, that's called revolution), but we can at least show a grassroots groundswell of support. That at the very least, fwiw, serves the Tories notice that further erosion of the public good is unacceptable.
Of course they will just ignore that. Why wouldn't they?
If we don't move on from clapping, as we seem to be from lockdown (or rather we're moved on), then it will just become rote, perfunctory. At this point that's the danger. It's become a habit and I don't want to see it lose all meaning. People now need to learn the lesson: we cannot let the NHS fail. We care, that's why we're clapping, so now we need to make sure it too gets better.
And if you are or have been clapping then the very least you could also be doing is NOT partying on the beach. Keep your distances social, don't be a dick.
Nobody does though. I'm not sure we as a species can. Most of where I go it's impossible anyway. The shops be too small. They could perhaps institute a traffic light policy but until they do, what can you do?
I could ask how people can support the Tories, specifically during this period. But this isn't a matter that can be reasoned out. It isn't logical. It is post-lgical. Facts are irrelevant; how else can Boris Johnsmoron continue to get away with this industrial scale gaslighting? It's tribal. This is ideology. We are divided. This is why I use the phrase: Class War. We have to start understanding that's what's happening when someone like Michael Gove says he too drives around to verify whether or not he can actually see!
As if that wasn't bonkers enough, he said something even more insidious on LBC (Liars Broadcast Cunts). He finished his interview with the appalling Nick Ferrari by saying that he doesn't think it appropriate to comment on such matters because he lacks skill as a driver, having failed to pass the driving test many times.
This is ridiculous: if I drove blind drunk full speed around a school playground during breaktime you would be correct in calling me a terrible driver. What experience of controlling a vehicle and what knowledge of the Highway Code is required to have such a blindingly obvious opinion?
This is class war in action. He doesn't want to answer the quesiotn, He knows he can't answer without incriminating himself and so he gaslights us. Something he excels at. This is wht they are doing when they speak to you like this. It's a sign of their contempt. They will not answer a straight question even during a period where lives depend on it. They twist the advice they are given while claiming to be guided by it.
This has to end before we do.
It is abundantly clear Dominic Cummings simply doesn't care. By flouting the rules so simply and easily he has undermined everything that has happened thus far - and, more importantly, the Prime Minister and his cabinet cabal do not care. Attempts to wrench the teuth out of these people is like pulling teeth made worse by their refusal to grant you the justification in doing so. You are wrong for questioning this. Be quiet, be productive: do as we say but not as we do.
The old ones are still the classics
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