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I was the Rev Giles Fraser's Facebook friend till I couldn't stand his crazy leftism and that of his friends. He has always been loony left, a huge admirer of Tony Benn and originally of Corbyn, but he voted Tory this time. He said
"It wasn’t the referendum debate that changed me. It was the establishment’s reaction upon losing it."I was interested to learn that he voted Tory in 1983 because he thought a victory by Mrs Thatcher would enable a left-wing victory afterwards. This is the mirror image of the view of Paul Gottfried that voting Democrat, for example for Mayor De Blasio of New York, hastens a palao-conservative backlash. Giles Fraser and his left wing chums were wrong in 1983. Paul Gottfried is wrong now?
This is the mirror image of the view of Paul Gottfried that voting Democrat, for example for Mayor De Blasio of New York, hastens a palao-conservative backlash. Giles Fraser and his left wing chums were wrong in 1983. Paul Gottfried is wrong now?
ReplyDeletePaul Gottfried would be correct if it was still 1968 and there was still a silent majority out there waiting to elect Nixon. It's a common delusion of the American dissident right that that silent majority of God-fearing, gun-worshipping, commie-hating decent ordinary Americans who will eventually rise up still exists. But it doesn't exist.
The overwhelming majority today consists of people who have totally internalised almost the entire liberal program - that feminism cannot be seriously questioned, that women are more virtuous than men, that homosexuality is awesome, that immigration is absolutely essential, that climate change is real, that men wearing frocks are real women, that toddlers can should have their sex changed by being fed puberty-blockers. Very few people seriously question any of this. Some think these agendas should be pushed more rapidly, some think they should be pushed more slowly, but virtually all think these agendas are righteous.
The only dissenters are among the old, among the over-60s. Among the young there is zero questioning of any of these agendas. There are still enough old people to get politicians like Boris Johnson over the line today but give it another five years and it's all over. The problem is that the old people are foolish enough to believe that they can resist by voting for lying shysters like the modern Tory Party when in fact the so-called right-wing parties are actually even worse than the so-called left-wing parties.
There is not going to be any backlash. The handful of people who might be tempted to join a backlash are too old and they're too silly (they still trust people like Boris Johnson and Trump).
The only hope is the complete collapse of western civilisation, which is now so thoroughly diseased as to be beyond saving.