Beyond #Megxit: @sjwrenlewis powerful analysis warning about the "invisible contract" between some of the public/politicians and the right-wing press that 'threatens meaningful democracy in the UK'.
TLDR: 'Permanent power is achieved in four ways': (1/5)
TLDR: 'Permanent power is achieved in four ways': (1/5)
'The first, taking its cue from the US Republican party, is to make any election battleground about this socially conservative/liberal divide that was at the core of Brexit. The right wing press and this government’s ‘war on woke’ is designed to achieve exactly that.' (2/5)
'The second means to permanent power, again borrowed from the US right, is to make it more difficult to vote, and to saturate elections with social media ads paid with uncontrolled amounts of money.' (3/5)
'The third, and most dangerous, is to control enough of the media to ensure they will always win. (Controlling the media is the most important part of a general attack on a pluralist democracy ... which in turn is the hallmark of populist leaders like Trump or Orban.)' (4/5)
'The fourth, which follows from the third, is to lie constantly in order to construct an alternative reality it’s supporters can believe in: an alternative reality where the important issues of the day involve preserving a mythical past rather than the health of the economy' /end
FULL post: mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-ro…)
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