Thread by @docrussjackson

#UPDATED

A Glossary of Right-Wing Terms & Phrases*

*as used by right-wing politicians & pundits, #TuftonStreet 'think-tanks', the right-wing press & right-wing 'influencers', Spiked, the Spectator, Times Radio, talkRADIO, & Britain's Fox News, GB News.

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This creative, divisive, & profoundly misleading use of language by free-market elites, & the hard-right & far-right, has evolved gradually over the last forty years, emerging hand-in-hand with underregulated free-market capitalism, the #climatecrisis, & the #CostOfLivingCrisis.

The manufactured "war on woke" is a distraction, designed to divide voters.

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 brought about by the neoliberal 'pro-growth' economic revolution, resulting in low-paid, insecure work, grotesque inequalities, rising poverty, failing public services, hyper-polarisation, the near collapse of democratic institutions, & climate change.

The push to 'deregulate' in order for the "free market" to function "effectively" has lowered worker, citizen, & environmental protections, while increasing exponentially the power of unelected & unaccountable corporations, opaquely funded 'think tanks', & VERY rich individuals.

These individuals, 'think tanks', & corporations have infiltrated & ruthlessly taken over political parties & Govts across the world,   including the UK @Conservatives & the US Republicans , who simply represent elite interests, at great cost to the masses & to the environment.

A key way they are enabled to continue exploiting human & environmental resources is by keeping a facade of democracy, while investing $BILLIONS in media outlets, 'think tanks', lobbyists & other forms of sophisticated propaganda, which use the language described in the glossary.

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 have suffered hardship resulting from unnecessary & ideologically extreme austerity.

Globally, at least $30 TRILLION -  an almost unimaginable amount of money - is now hoarded offshore by the tax-avoiding elite , & just TEN individuals now have as much wealth as the poorest THREE BILLION people on earth.

As ever-rising inequality results in #CostOfLivingCrises, industrial unrest, & global protests, all they have left is to fall back on populist nationalist scapegoating rhetoric reminiscent of 1930s Germany, used to divide us, & distract us from those elites who caused this mess.