Thread by @EuropeanPowell

The right have always conflated Democratic Socialism with totalitarian Communism, history shows how western countries sought to force disaster capitalism on stable economies going so far as to replace an entire culture with off domiciled corporations. Something parallel to this

has been ushered in with populism and Brexit in the UK. The tactics deployed were well learned tropes of right wing propaganda; division, identifying a common enemy and an overwhelming sense of betrayal and victimhood. The 'promises' emblazoned on the Leave bus, billboard posters

and social media platforms all turned out to be empty mirages and dangled carrots that Leavers and Sun readers are now being asked by Jacob Rees-Mogg to email him about as he's struggling to come up with any tangible benefits himself.

I believe the UK will go through many years of hardship both financially and politically as Brexit will be thrown around between the oppositions parties like a hot potato. Increased privatisation coupled with deregulation of workers rights, food standards, the collapse of

commercial haulage under a barrage of red tape, the rise of Charter Cities, ongoing corruption at the highest levels of Govt, public institutions will see right wing directors appointed, school curriculums will be structured under strict DfE guidelines to not teach critical

thinking especially that of the politically left. As the judiciary is dismantled so will the simultaneous rights to protest be met by an intolerant police force with junta style leanings. When the UK finally wakes up it will spend many years trying to build new shock absorbers

into a burgeoning decentralized, grass roots, community level of progressive powerful networks throughout neighbourhood councils. I would hope that the opposition parties tactically pull together to preempt the mistakes wrought by Brexit and it's foreign hostile libertarian

actors who collectively span Austria, the US, Australia and Russia. The new leaders of this phase of reconstruction will be those with direct experience of the devastation disaster capitalism unleashed on it's own citizens, the ghost towns of Tory austerity and fallow farmland

serving as bleak reminders of what right wing libertarians with scorched earth policies leave behind when volatile markets cause them to up and leave whole cities and communities in ruins. The hard realities of the rights venal plundering of the nation state during crisis will

hit home as Covid recedes and comparisons with the EU will inevitably reveal the block emerging from this period far less scathed than the UK. I'm not pulling this out of thin air, I'm looking at examples in history particularly Latin America during the Friedman/Pinochet period.

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