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They are all part of a cabal of far right mavericks and wannabe despots violently seizing control of the levers of power wherever they can, to achieve their dystopian vision of a deregulated world, where they exist above the pesky rules by which us commoners must abide, and trousering billions in ill-gotten gains.
In a warped way you must admire the audacity of these disruptors and would be destroyers of the post war liberal progressive society of the West. These would be stealers of democracy have gone someway to achieving their shattering objectives in both the UK and the US.
HOWEVER.
Parliament has just given these rabble-rousing illogical zealots a great big bloody nose.
And the USA = 2018
building up to 2020
If opinion polls on both side of the pond are to be believed these arseholes have over played their hand. Too greedy, too violent, too extreme for the average chap and chapette.
It is not over yet, so it is not over yet! Huzzah!
empedocles
(15,751 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)so the MAGAtzi's can understand
bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)"The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State" James Weinstein. 1890 to 1925, how progressivism was tamed to serve corporate interests within liberal republican democracy (America).
Today and going forward, we may wind up with The Liberal Ideal in the Corporate State. Some personal freedoms, in other words, that largely serve a corporate if not quite fascist state. Consumerism to serve the Overlords some wags might say.
dlk
(11,561 posts)They have done severe damage to our democracy and are wholly unfit to govern. Rational Americans dont want the rich and powerful to continually vacuum up all the resources and not be subject to any annoying regulations or laws, while the remainder of Americans become a permanent servant class, scrambling just to live indoors. Its time to wise up and vote Republicans out of office, permanently.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)and it will never be over.
calimary
(81,226 posts)Thats one thing we can always count on.