Know Your Enemy

I read this over at Tim Worstalls Blog:

The term the politics of hate describes the deliberate use of fear, resentment, and division to win and hold power. It works by persuading people that their problems are caused not by failed policy or unequal power, but by other people, whether they be migrants, minorities, the poor, neighbouring nations, people of another gender or sexual orientation, or anyone else who can be turned into an enemy.

It's a  quote from Richard Murphy, the man man with the economic knowledge of a pigeon. In his usual short, sharp style, Tims short, sharp response is:

Yeah, like the rich, or neoliberals……

True. The left have their own ways of  persuading people their problems are caused by others, most notably, trying to convince us that all our problems are because someone else is a billionaire

 

But we could look a little deeper here 

It works by persuading people that their problems are caused not by failed policy...

Let's take a look at some failed policies:

Migrants: Hundreds of thousands of them coming here illegally, and not even bothering to take our jobs, the bastards, just mooching off our very generous welfare state

Minorities: Trying their very best to put us in the minority. Changing the very fabric of our society until the areas they live in resemble the very shitholes they left, all the while making sure the local folk are no longer welcome there. Not to mention their dogs

Out in the streets blocking traffic, protesting for and waving the flags of their home countries 

The Poor: The term used by the left for people who refuse to work and choose a life of taxpayer handouts, thanks to our very generous welfare system that robs from the productive and gives to the feckless. The real poor are us working stiffs who have to pay for all this with our ever increasing taxes

neighbouring nations: You mean France, sending us all their unwanted invaders? Or the EU?

People of another gender or sexual orientation: Not including men and women, of course. Only the trans cult who want to invade womens spaces and groom the next generation of children to have their bits cut off 

or anyone else who can be turned into an enemy: This is like using 'Etc' when you have used up all your examples

These are all very good examples of policies that have failed miserably

To me, the Government has always been the enemy. The problem is failed Government policies turn other people into the enemy too; usually groups of people who want everything in life for free, for various reasons, or groups of very insignificant people who want to raise thier own profiles by messing with our lives

 

Our politics of hate is simply politics of pointing out what is going wrong and asking that our elected representatives do something about it. Something that will work, rather than just another failed policy like 'tax the rich'

 

Their politics of hate is simply, 'Punish the rich and give us more free stuff' 

 

Of course, I won't comment any of this at Richard Murphys place, as he bans anyone who even slightly disagrees with him, so I was probably PNG'd decades ago 

The left can't sense of humour

 

I say 'The Left' without showing any exidence that this person is left wing, but it's 'Not Always right'. 99.9% of the people who comment on there are left wing. And 99.9% of the people who comment on there have no sense of humour

A is for Activist

We do like to wander round the charity shops in town on a Saturday afternoon, after grabbing a bit of breakfast. There's worst ways to spend your Saturday morning. It's certainly more pleasant that fitting a new letterbox, which I had to do in the afternoon, and was a right ballache

 

I managed to find a couple of good books, but I also found something I didn't expect

 

You know when you hear about a moral panic doing the rounds on Twitter or something, and you think, it can't be that bad?

 

A popular one is how the right wing nazis want to get books banned. The truth behind it is, some people only want the gay and trans porn written for children, to be banned from schools

Well what I found today wasn't quite as bad as that filth, but it's on a par

 

At first I thought it was just a pisstake, but it's not. It's an actual book, written to teach young children the alphabet, in a full on woke, inclusive, diverse, anti-capitalist style

In other words it's pure brainwashing propaganda for toddlers

 

A is for Activist. Advocate. Abolishonist. Ally. Actively answering a call to action. Are you an activist?

And just look at the picture

 

When I was young enough to be reading these books, A was for Apple. I bet it was for you too.

 

The author? Innosanto Nagara. No, I've no idea either, but it does sound about right

 

And on the back cover, it's endorsed by some really famous and respectable people:

 

"Full of wit, beauty and fun. We can think of no better way to learn the alphabet" Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis, Author of The Shock Doctrine / Filmmaker

Well I can think of a better way to learn the alphabet. The way we used to before woke started going for the children

 

"We need books for children that use words like Justice, Ally, Freedom and advocate" Rona Renner, Parent Educator. Host of childhood matters radio show

No. We really don't

 

Maybe I'll share some more letters with you in a later blog post. Try to guess what T is for... 

Really, really far right indeed

I don't tend to take much stock of what happens on Facebook; it's good for doomscrolling funny cat pictures and cartoons when you're watching something on the telly that's a bit of a slow burner, or waiting for the Mrs to finish the tea

 

Me being me though, I do tend to get a lot of political stuff popping up, and for the past two nights there's been a lot about Reform and their many defections

 

The comments on Facebook surprise me, because you don't tend to pick what pops up, you get people from all walks of life. Reading all the guff about Reform shows you just how many people are out there who still fully support the Labour party and the general mess they're making

 

And they all use the same terms when talking about Reform - Far Right

 

I've never seen anything about Reform that suggests they are Far Right, in the correct sense of the words, but Far Right no longer means Far Right, when uttered by left wing, hard of thinking morons, it just means slighty left of wherever they are on the spectrum, usually somewhere around Stalin and Marx

 

Far Right really only refers to normal folk who have jobs, families, cats, and are opposed to extortionate taxes, unchecked illegal immigration, crime and two tier policing, to name a few 

 

The words have so lost their meaning that the left really need to come up with some other description for us

 

I have heard Ultra Far Right used on occasion, but it didn't really seem to take off. I could suggest maybe Extremely Far Right. Or Really Very Far Right. Or maybe Really Really Extremely Far Right Indeed

 

I mean, they do have form. They did it with Global Warming when that got tired. We've had Climate Change, Climate Emergencey, Climate Catastrophe, Global Heating, Global Boiling and It's A Dry Heat That Warms The Globe

 

If they want to keep insulting the decent folk by comparing us to the Nazis, I think they really need to step up their game

 

Actually Really Really Very Positively Unquestionably Far Right  Indeed?

I posted my poop

I got a thing through the post this weekend from the NHS. They want me to send in a poop sample so they can test me for bowel cancer

I assume now I've turned fifty, I'll likely get frequent requests for bodily samples from the NHS, for various reasons

 

Oh well, I'm not one to turn down a health check. I may be fit and healthy, but I am creeping up in years, so what the hell

So this morning I pooped on a stick and bunged it in the post

 

All the while, I couldn't help thinking about 'Dr' Gillian McKeith. Remember her? The woman who used to analyise peoples poop on the telly, and use it to see how healthy they were, or were not? 

 

I remember a story, true or not, about her home address being released on the internet and loads of people sending her poo through the post, just for shits and giggles (Pun intended)

 

So that's my morning. How've you been? 

Happy New Year Everyone!