Thread by @docrussjackson

Terms & phrases to look out for during the #ToryLeadershipContest, as used EVERY DAY by right-wing politicians & pundits, right-wing media, the alt, hard & far-right, Spiked, The Spectator, & a global network of billionaire funded free-market think-tanks:

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The Right's creative, divisive, & profoundly misleading use of language has evolved over the last forty years, emerging hand-in-hand with deregulated free-market capitalism, which Britain's next PM will continue & accelerate with the introduction of antidemocratic Charter Cities.

The manufactured war on woke is a distraction, designed to keep voters divided. Under cover of COVID, wealth has been transferred from poor to rich on an unprecedented & unimaginable scale, eroding democracy & resulting in hardship, conflict, mass death & environmental collapse.

Wealth transfer has been accelerating for forty years, brought on by the #neoliberalism, which increased ‘growth’, but also resulted in low-paid, insecure work, grotesque inequalities, poverty, failing public services, polarisation, & the near collapse of democratic institutions.

The push to ‘deregulate’ in order for the “free market” to function more “effectively” has driven down worker, consumer, citizen & environmental protections, while increasing exponentially the power of unelected & unaccountable corporations & grotesquely wealthy individuals.

These individuals & corporations have slowly infiltrated then ruthlessly taken over political parties & Governments across the world — including the Tory Party in the UK & the US Republicans — who simply represent elite interests, at great cost to the masses & to the environment.

A key mechanism they use to continue exploiting human & environmental resources is by keeping a facade of democracy, while investing $BILLIONS in media outlets, think tanks, lobbying, PR & other forms of sophisticated divisive #propaganda, using the language described above.

In the UK we can see this process playing out by the (largely unreported) FACT that since 2009, the collective wealth of Britain’s richest 1,000 individuals has INCREASED by £480 BILLION, while millions suffer hardship resulting from unnecessary & purely ideological #austerity.

Globally, at least $30 TRILLION is hoarded offshore by the elite, resulting in widespread protest & civil unrest across the world, all they have left is populist rhetoric & the scapegoating of anyone or anything but the sociopathic libertarian elites whose greed caused this mess.

"He was funny, charismatic, & popular... Almost imperceptibly at first, the democratic rights, institutions, processes, & protections built up over centuries were quickly, systematically, & ruthlessly rolled back..."

Are we there yet? Yes. Yes we are.

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