Them Or Us Again 5: The Struggle

 I think I'm starting to struggle. I'm running out of things to say. Do I just repeat the same dismal news everyday? The news IS the same dismal daily repetition, though. Shall I endlessly point out how capitalism is failing and failing us over and voer? The problem with that kind of rhetoric is the decades and decades of anti-socialist propaganda that has reached the point where even mention of the word immediately provokes an insurmountable violently ideological response. Even one that's incoherent.

I've tried talking to people online (can't do much elsewhere) and it's an uphill struggle. You are doomed to failure when dealing with people that aren't even willing to consider the possibility, during a pandemic, that capitalism isn't helping us anymore, if it ever was. Our world is falling down around us, the economy is cracking at the seams to the point cycles of lockdown and unlock are unsustainable; they are microcosms of the boom and bust that defines capitalism at the best of times. Yet people are blind to any alternative. All you hear from the tired reactionaries in punditland and the now-blamestream media is that we mustn't lock down. But they cannot (nor will they) offer an alternative. This is because the only alternative that can be offered isn't capitalism, and they are too proudly ideological to accept this.

The shadow of brexit looms. The Euro Doomsday clock ticks ever closer to Midnight. In fact that ticking is being actively ratcheted by people too stupid to realise the damage they are going to cause. Again, their ideology blinkers them. In response, of course, they will assert the same of me or anyone making a similar accusation. We now have to prepare for no deal. The choice that even the Brexiteers said wouldn't happen. The outcome that was to be filed under Project Fear. It has escaped the depths of the underworld and returned to haunt the house. How do we prepare though? Does that mean stockpile food, or, heaven forfend, bog roll? Get all the vaccines for the diseases (not Covid of course!) and inject them all in case of...?

Pray?