The rise and rise of socialist leader Jeremy
Corbyn has shocked some, amazed
others. Right now his critics are searching for reasons why this seventy plus
Labour Party leader has become the hero for thousands of thousands UK voters.
Naturally they fail to look at themselves and their behaviour.
How can this have happened without them knowing…after all they are the “in
group”…or so they believe?
Right now times are changing and the power base of the wealthy is under
attack, the first real indicator was the US election outcome.
The Democrats did everything in their power to cancel out the Sanders factor
[movement] in their effort to continue down the path of neoliberal money
control…and they were successful by putting Clinton forward for President and
therefor allowed the strange and weird Trump to creep into the White House.
What they have ended up with is yet more government run like a profit making
business for Trump and his rich mates
In the UK Corbyn turned to the people for help in defeating the
neoliberal Blairites attempt to replace Corbyn. And the labour party masses
rejected the Blairites plea. And when May called an early election everybody
[MSM that is] believed she would increase her majority and even win in a
landslide. They were wrong, now naturally they blame May for the shattering
loss of support. They need a scape-goat and they found one in May.
Both Corbyn and to a lesser degree Sanders stuck to their principles and
turned to the people. They went to the people with a program of fairness and
honesty; they pushed a socialist agenda that recognised the massive gap between
the rich and the poor.
Here in NZ we also have our populists’ leaders like Winston Peters who
say what they think we want to hear, they pamper to our fears rather than our
needs and that will sometimes work in the short term.
The reality is that we know what the actual problems are, what we are
seeking are the ways and means of solving those problems. Corbyn didn’t jump on
the populist band wagon; one writer put it like this;
“They, Corbyn and Sanders haven’t
changed in order to jump on board, they’re socialists and this equips them for
the populist mood, which exists because of the widening gulf between most
people and the arrogant rich”
[Rick Salutin June 16 2017]
Lies that flatter often pay dividends but equally they often simply
delay the negative effects of those lies for a short time. Key was a master of
the half-truth; English is nowhere as convincing, as the Todd Barclay episode
has proven.
But the lesson our political parties need to study is the reaction by
voters to the never ending spin and PR crap that fills our MSM. It would seem
to me that based on the clear evidence of the UK elections that voters and
especially younger voters are ignoring what the MSM says they should believe
and instead see the reality of their existence.
We have one clear advantage or
factor in our favour and that is our electoral system of
MMP which is a huge improvement of
the First past the post process used in the UK.
Our second largest party [Labour] has been
attempting to dismantle its neoliberalist history by dumping its Blairite type
members, many of that breed have given up and have departed the scene.
Our third largest Party the Greens, which is
the most democratically organised grouping, appears to be drifting toward the
center. This could be because they feel they have fully captured the
environmental vote and see nowhere else to go.
The forth party NZ First depends almost
completely on its leader to latch onto the fear factor [immigration and
provincial neglect] They have now added Adult movie man Shane Jones, the Norths
version of Donald Trump, but history has clearly proven that NZ First will
support whoever gives its leader a top position after the votes are counted.
The Maori Party somehow has become corrupted
because of its long bridesmaid status with the neoliberalist National Party.
The Mana party [movement] is still the only
real hope for Maori, why, because they truly represent those at the bottom of
the heap.
A combined grouping of Labour, Greens and the
Mana movement that includes the Maori Party may well represent the only real
hope for the future wellbeing of all of us.
Two factors are obvious; we must close the gap
between the super-rich and the rest of us. And the rest of us includes the
young and the elderly, forget if you can your own back pocket and that’s bloody
hard and accept that we can collectively unite under the MMP process toward a
fairer and more equal society…and that at least in my mind is what socialism is
all about.
If you have the time please read the following
from Action Station: https://medium.com/@laura.oc.rapira/nine-reasons-to-be-hopeful-%EF%B8%8F-448b10e5ad88
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