Last year I didn't live in a world with Covid.
Last week I didn't live in a country that voted to deny food to children.
OK that last one is not entirely accurate given that it's one of many many sins the Tories have committed over, at least, the last decade. Still sounds vile though.
These are their policies, not ours.
The response to the pandemic has been their policy, not ours. But if we do not take charge somehow of this crisis, then their policies will kill even more. Of that I am sure. The scientists have already said, of the second wave, tens of thousands more deaths are unavoidable.
Last year I didn't live in a world where excess death rates, from a single cause, were daily and totalling the thousands. That situation is entirely down to the Tories. They could have locked down earlier and saved more lives. They could have kept things shut until it was actually safe to open them. They could have prepared the education service adequately. They could still shut schools and sort out the universities that have become plague pits. Now the dead aren't just the elderly the reactionary rabid right doesn't care about (the traditional Tory demographic, by the way), but the children. The next generation that will motivate the economy.
They could cancel Brexit. They could make some sort of deal to at least ensure more businesses don't collapse, and that food and medicines, and other vital goods, can be provided. They don't even do that.
We're at 23.000 new infections today. This, IIRC, is the highest yet. Though I'm sure that's a record that will be broken in time. If ever there has been a case for a complete and abject dereliction of governmental responsibility and duty of care it is this government. Yet they would rather blame Labour, still. Nicky Morgan on Quisling Time, sorry I mean Question Time, saying that Labour would have had more success had they been a little less coarse. That's text book tone policing. Imagine using that to hold Labour to account - while complaining that they always play politics. I don't hthink she realises the full extent of what she's actually said though.
Just Feed Kids.
Meanwhile, instead of protesting against that, the awakened are out parading around Oxford Street with another march against masks. Fighting for "freedom" or something. I don't think they know what that means. How free are you when you're on a ventilator or infecting the vulnerable in your family?
It's all a miasma of carefully confected media confusion. It percolates, like a virus, inside their minds where it finds purchase in pure existing, equally nurtured, prejudices and neuroses. Fears about the modern world and life - some of which are justifiable; how will I support myself? What if I lose my job or house? Capitalist fears, placed there by media actors who aren't interested in answers, just outrage. Snake Oil that makes you sicker until you vomit in the streets all your confused thoughts about the world and try to make sense of it. Until we end up with Neo Nazi's defending Winston Churchill statues because the real fascists are those who point out Churchill's problematic history. Not the man responsible for the swastikas emblazoned on their freedom-loving ample manboobs.
The answer to this cannot come from existing structures. Send the cops in to break up a protest and you'll just further send these people off the deep end. It will feed into their persecution complex. That they are protesting is a sign that things have already broken down too far. Ask if they want real freedom, emancipation from private ownership and profits, and they'll call you a commie or a cultural Marxist (itself an antisemitic trope). That is the problem; they have to develop class consciousness.
Better get to it
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