Tory politicians are so totally hopeless and useless.
They don't care about the fact that literally everyone under the age of 45 hates them. They seem totally oblivious to the fact that the Boomers, who keep them in power for now, are a rapidly shrinking % of the electorate.
How can you not get that??
They're not making new Boomers anymore. The number of Boomers can only go one way.
Meanwhile, every single day, hundreds of new Zoomers reach voting age.
And Millennials are not becoming any more conservative as they age.
Do the maths!!
"Young people have always gone through a left-wing phase"
-Except, as recently as 2015 (left-hand side), "young" meant "people in their 20s".
Since 2017 (right-hand side), "young" means "people up to their mid-40s".
That's a big shift. And no conservative politician gets it.
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"[D]ecisions are made by those that show up – it’s true, and sways decision making in particular directions. Activist politics is dominated by two groups, the university aged (now almost universally on the left) and the retired (usually Tories)." joxleywrites.substack.com/p/how-do-we-so…
Isn't this just the perfect caption?
"It’s not that she’s pro-housing crisis, or anti-growth. It’s just that she doesn’t support that development. Or this one. Or seemingly any in her constituency. Like many MPs, she appears to want housebuilding in theory, but not the reality of plans that turn up"
Gorbo was a net force for good.
But he wasn't a hero.
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was not initially his aim. His aim was a partial - political and economic -liberalisation *within* a socialist system. That then got out of hand, because socialism cannot be "made nicer".
The best thing about Gorbo was what he did *not* do. He did *not* send Soviet tanks to Poland, the GDR or the ČSSR to crush the uprisings. He did *not* do a Tiananmen Square.
That's his legacy. He could have done a lot of bad stuff, but chose not to.
Useful reminder that there's no logical reason why commies have to be woke, or why wokies have to be commies. It's just that fashionable opinions usually come in ready-made packages these days. So in practice, wokies are also commies, and commies are also wokies.
"[T]he behaviour of cultural elites is powerfully influential on the manners and morals of society. We imitate the fashions [...] of our perceived social betters. We also imitate their morals."
"“Britain and Twitter aren’t the same thing” is perhaps the only David Cameron axiom you ever hear quoted approvingly. But it’s not exactly true. Britain and Twitter are not the same thing now. But they will be eventually."
"[I]deas about gender and race associated with the culture war are powerful because they are socially as well as morally impressive. [...] The social prestige of woke ideas is an important factor in their spread from universities to corporations and the political mainstream."