@grammasaurus @OhWeh
I really really hope so.

I'm 65 and back in the day I figured the hippie generation would change the world... But they didn't.

@Sfwmson The hippies got usurped by the disco/yuppie culture. That's really the time point when every normal person started getting poorer as money was funnelled upwards.

@grammasaurus @OhWeh

@ienvision @Sfwmson @grammasaurus @OhWeh

We are a brand and we can all be rich once day as long as we compete AGAINST each other.

Unions bunked, greed became the new "clever". And every instinct to not leech off 90% of society for an uncaring pantheon of people was labeled "socialist".

Capitalism means taking everything away from people and then blaming them for being poor. And then having the audacity to say Jesus would have been a capitalist.

@ChristianRiegel @ienvision @grammasaurus @OhWeh

I'm not religious at all but this is the part I don't understand at all. How can people who claim to be religious also support this kind of government?

The mental gymnastics they have to play to justify their following must be exhausting. Or they just don't care. I think that's the reason.

@ienvision Religious people believe all kinds of nonsense.

@Sfwmson @ChristianRiegel @grammasaurus @OhWeh

@Tattie @EF
100% this.

Yeah, for example Tory/UKIP politicians promising leaving the EU would result in things that were legally, practically and even logically impossible was a big part of the Brexit catastrophe, and the civil service weren't forcing them to do that. They were screaming into a pillow because they aren't allowed to oppose government policy politically no matter how stupid and doomed it is.

@petealexharris And then the Conservatives followed weirdo Dom Cummings' "innovative" advice and sacked most of the civil service. Like an early version of DOGE.

@Tattie @EF

@petealexharris @EF I also know a few civil servants, and no, they’re not a grey power behind the throne.

The problem is more subtle; when all the official & unofficial training says ‘find a way to work in partnership with the private sector”, & the private sector is full of friendly people looking to give help and experience and make you look good for the minister, you’ve been captured. And your ideas & the minister’s ideas are the same, because they’re thinking for both of you.

@treehugger @EF
Yeah, but split the vote with who? There often won't be another progressive or even principled party running in a lot of seats, from a practical human rights position, so there's no viable lesser of two evils to be content with.

In previous elections that has always been a reasonable argument, but the last one broke the seal. Now we know the greens can win seats. All that can stop that happening is people talking themselves out of it.