Meanwhile for us "ordinary" folk there seems little prospect of respite from both right-wing and left-wing "populism" though the rise of racism on the left is disturbing. It's not just anti-Semitism. The editor of the pro-Corbyn website The Canary (no links, I consider it a "hate" site) thinks "people of colour", by which she means Blacks, Asians et al lose their right to their ethnicity if they support a "right-wing" government.
They have betrayed their brethren. Blacks, Asians and others cannot be free to do as they wish just follow the white dominated left who know what's best for them. After all those pesky Jews are rich bankers and industrialists that some lefties see as an "international Jewish bourgeoisie". The modern left's version of the forged "Protocols of Zion".
While all this goes on the so-called "left" continues it's love-in with extreme right-wing Islamists in Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood and some like the leaders of Stop the war (and in the past old Corbyn himself) work for the gay hanging clerics of Iran's Press TV now banned in the UK for interviewing a man who was being supervised by his torturers.
How about handing back you blood money comrades? You know who you are and Corbyn got twenty grand to add to his coffers. He is a millionaire these days. Oh, you didn't know?" Oooh Jereny Corbyn" you may well chant....
Meanwhile there are new orthodoxies that cannot be challenged in the form of the 57 varieties of gender identity and the demand that women can have their scrotum waxed. Yes women now have penises according to the "woke" some of whom claim these wondrous individuals also have periods. Er, no they don't.
Live like a woman if you wish but women's sex-based rights are not for sale especially to the seemingly self-centred trans-activists of today whose misogyny is to say the least extreme. These people do more damage to ordinary trans-people than any so-called "transphobe". Not that the woke left will listen.
As a blogger I have to find my way politically through all this mess. Although I blog less and use Facebook more these days (do join me) change has come over the eight years or so I've been blogging. From being a trade union activist in PCS then briefly Prospect backing Labour to breaking with the Labour over Corbyn, the far-left takeover and the rise of anti-Semitism to being a politically homeless pensioner as the result of serious illness.
One of the sad things is people come, people go. I am an active atheist and secularist whose views on the major religious threat from Islam(ism) is often misinterpreted as what people call "Islamophobia".
Breaking with the past is sometimes a necessary action in life. If we as individuals fail to move on with the times and changing ideas then we become those that we criticise living in a world of blinkered perspectives. Marxism, Fascism and Religion have this in common with each other. The old terms of "left" and "right" have become ever more meaningless over the years as anti-Zionism an invention of fascists becomes a tool of anti-imperialists on the left.
At the same time political and personal self indulgence has become the name of the game amongst so many parts of the political community with universities suppressing free speech when they should be encouraging it. Students hiding from ideas that that they do not agree with or want to hear. Safe spaces, Triggers, Jazz hands and all that bollocks does not prepare people for the real world.
It also censors, suppresses and forms a quiet oppressive kind of fascism where speaking one's mind or even thinking dissent becomes a crime. Mao's "Cultural Revolution" in a modern form. Let a thousand flowers bloom he said, then mowed them down.
Politics is broken. They can be fixed but only if the will is there. We need a new politics, a re-alignment of what was looking forward to what can be done for a better world. The old ideologies and theologies have failed.
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