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Why we end up, whichever party, with the same corrupt policies and wars (jonathancook.substack.com)

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In political debates between left and right, what gets lost is this obvious point:

The powerful maintain their power through an insistence that change is dangerous. They want power structures unchanged because they developed those structures precisely to keep themselves rich and powerful. This is the starting point of rightwing ideologies.

Those without power can only help the weak and marginalised, end wars and genocide, stop the ecological destruction of the planet by changing these power structures. This is the starting point of leftwing ideologies.

There is a further point. By definition, the right has the power and money to bankroll parties, media, think-tanks that claim to be on the left but are actually there to prop up existing power structures that benefit the right. Over many decades the right has developed an unparalleled expertise in the dark arts of worming its ideas into our heads, manipulating us into believing black is white, up is down.

Even if it wished to, the left lacks any equivalent power.

If the world looks confusing to you, it is probably because you are falling for these kind of "political" deceptions. You are voting for fake leftwing parties, watching fake leftwing TV news and reading fake leftwing papers quoting fake experts.

We keep ending up with the same corrupt parties, the same dishonest policies, the same wars of empire because we cannot see past the right’s mind-games.

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Even if it wished to, the left lacks any equivalent power.

If the world looks confusing to you, it is probably because you are falling for these kind of “political” deceptions. You are voting for fake leftwing parties, watching fake leftwing TV news and reading fake leftwing papers quoting fake experts.

We keep ending up with the same corrupt parties, the same dishonest policies, the same wars of empire because we cannot see past the right’s mind-games.

i wish i understood the depths to which those inherent contradictions will force us to sink to, before things ever get better (presuming that our societies are capable of surviving climate change) as my watch my elderly father celebrate with glee that his medicare is getting cut and my siblings pride themselves on enabling the policies that will fuck over my grand nephews and nieces.

i think the biggest sign that we're in for a rude awakening comes from my millenial nephews and nieces who continue to insist that it's "no big deal" because they're doing well financially atm and delude themselves into believing that their children will be one of the "lucky ones" who aren't bitten by the changes. i hate myself sometimes for wishing that they grew up like their parents and i did to understand how quickly and how much shittier things can get for them and their children to help them understand what they're allowing to happen when they tell me that they don't want stir up the kind of drama that i've stirred up with their parents over all of it.

i used to think that my anarchist sister was wrong for distancing herself from our immediate family because they "just didn't get it" but now i wish i had joined her sooner since it hurts more to watch people you have a close emotional attachment to hurt (out of the ignorance) the younger people they're responsible for bringing into this world. i think i would be better off knowing nothing more about them beyond that they exist, as she does.

all of it makes me super thankful that my extended family is more understanding and that both my sister and i have them to keep us attached to humanity.

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

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