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The deep divide between the people and mainstream politics and media : Comments

By Richard Eckersley, published 23/2/2022

A dangerous gulf exists in liberal democracies between people's concerns about their lives, their countries and their future, and the priorities, proclivities and pre-occupations of mainstream politics and media.

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Them and us covers the game pretty well. Nothing changes.

Voting with a bullet will work!

Dan
Posted by diver dan, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 6:49:28 AM
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Them and us
diver dan,
The them & us means not so much those who have more & less, it's the fact that that too many are getting paid too much for doing next to nothing and, in too many cases cause utterly unnecessary malfunction in society !
Leftist bureaucrats come to mind !
Posted by individual, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 8:33:50 AM
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Fundamentally in this article the Author shows his bias and educated elitist attitudes.

Naturally he shows scant understanding of Trump and his impact.

Trump was elected by the very people the author indicates were and are now again suffering feelings of 'a shared sense of isolation, insecurity, uncertainty, risk, and precarity'.

These people are of two particular classes: Entrepreneurs (Small Business) and working people.

For these people Trump lowered the cost of living and taxes, reduced government regulation and illegal immigration. He increased real wages, returned jobs from cheaper economies, increased employment (for US Citizens), effected less bloodshed and extracted the US from wasteful wars, as well as reducing the risk of international conflict.

What the author ignores is the dominant ruling class, who suffered none of the feelings he enunciates and who at the last election again returned the 'educated elites'.

These people, the educated elites are who control and inhabit the Major Corporations, The Arts, The Media, the Public Service, Government Security Organisations and now again Executive Government. They have returned the US to the pre Trump era of economic disaster and increased international tensions.

What the author shows by his omissions of the conditions enforced by 'educated elites' and ignoring of the great benefits engendered by Trump, is his 'educated elite' bias.

When he espouses generalised inanities such as 'by engaging us in the shared task of working for a better future', I'm left asking, 'So who decides what's the better future?'

For the author, it is his incompetent educated elites, who reject the working class as 'deplorables' and who create unjust and inequitable outcomes. Of course they will be led by Senile Joe or Crooked Hillary. For entrepreneurs and working people, what ever their origin, it was and will again be the Entrepreneurial Trump (or his daughter) who created prosperity and civility for small business people AND the working people.
Posted by imajulianutter, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 9:34:31 AM
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"Richard Eckersley is an independent researcher".

Independently so far left he can only see the world through a red mist.
Posted by Hasbeen, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 10:29:57 AM
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Excellent analysis by the esteemed researcher. In today's world even in the most advanced liberal democracies we see a growing trend towards less liberalism and less democracy. The mainstream political parties and countries are competing with each other as to who will become the best practitioner of new despotism. This makes the elites ignorant of reality and the most pressing needs of the societies which they claim to serve. This is unsustainable, undemocratic and a waste of energy.
Posted by Macedonian advocacy, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 10:46:41 AM
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WE don't need to look to the US to observe "Wedge Politics". Our own aboriginals are doing their best to divide the community into "Us and Them". If they give away their clamour for a separate voice in parliament and join in mainstream politics, they will finally "close the gap" instead of making it wider.
Posted by VK3AUU, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 10:47:12 AM
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