Even barely contained within the crumbling edifice of 'democracy' the right-wing masquerading as legitimate governments wreak a kind of havoc that is barely comprehensible.
While there was much relief in the West that the Democrats prevailed and there was no second Trump term, only the most naïve believe Biden won as opposed to Trump losing. And following the Jan 6th insurrection that followed, it became clear that Trump not only nearly destroyed the US he has had a long-term destructive influence on the party that enabled him.
Here in the UK it seems only inertia is holding Britain together as 13 years of Tory government has lurched further and further to the right to where now barely a day goes by without scandal and self-harm distracting from real government.
Our bronze medallist PM, the 3rd unelected in the space of a
calendar year, is gagged and bound by the need to pander to the right wing lunatics - once referred to as "swivel eyed loons" by the weakling David Cameron. Now they hold the reigns of conservatism in the UK.
Sunak just appointed the vile thug Lee Anderson as deputy chairman. Anderson’s opening gambit was a call to bring
back hanging for which Sunak lamely rebuked him. Meanwhile we live in a country in both economic and social peril and full denial about the catastrophic effects of the xenophobic wet dream that is Brexit.
And now, if proof were needed of the destructive
force of extreme right-wing politics in the 21st century with its aggressive
greed, hatred of ‘other’ and narcissistic lack of self-awareness, we have
Israel.
Netanyahu sold his soul to the far right wing in a desperate attempt to maintain power and avoid legal peril. He and they are now operating beyond any bounds of real democracy and decency openly
planning to politicise the judiciary – the last bastion of any civilised administration.
Despite 6 weeks of protest there is no let up.
Yes, we’ve seen in the UK and the US the extreme
right destroy themselves and we can only pray that the right in Israel similarly implode but my God – the damage they do to decency and
democracy and ordinary folk in the process…
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