Quote: (03-10-2015 06:44 AM)H1N1 Wrote:
I think, most likely, I won't vote. The system is broken and intellectually I can't bring myself to support it. I like some of UKIP's policies, but the reality is they have no hope at all - they won't redress the balance. A major success for them would be to be a minor voice of dissent in the House of Commons, whilst the rest of the political spectrum shifts further to the left.
I take the point about 'Brand's pseudo-anarchism', but in some respects he is correct (even a stopped clock is right twice a day). A system that only gives you the least bad option is not a system that deserves support. A system that does not distinguish between someone on welfare and someone who has created a business that brings wealth and employment to the country (I DO NOT include corporate fat cats in this, who are essentially defrauding shareholders in my view) is a system that will never work, because there are too many of the former, and too few of the latter, so the former will always prevail, and they will vote to take more from the productive. It's just the nature of things. Why then, if you attempt to be productive, would you participate in such a system. You are quite literally acting directly contrary to your best interests.
There are things I'd like to see, such as the UK leave Europe, but the reality is it's all too late now. The Conservatives have consistently proven themselves to be the most cowardly party in existence, dating back decades. There is nothing remotely conservative about them, they are entirely a progressive party, and I suspect that many of them would like to see a Tory/Labour alliance. At that point, noone should be under any illusions, we are living under a form of soft tyranny. The point where our 'leaders' would sacrifice principle in favour of furthering their own personal power is the point where democracy has ended and a dictatorship has begun.
This election is most likely to end with a Labour/LibDem/Green/SNP coalition, and result in a dramatic swing to the left - some might call it a death throw. The majority will vote for these fantasists, because they don't have even a basic grasp of how an economy works - they just see that they'll benefit more than they would under a less 'progressive' system, and, to quote from someone highly educated on my FB feed (talking about the Greens) 'they may not know how they'd pay for them, but their ideas are right, and for that I'll be voting for them'. This person is highly educated, far more so than the vast majority of the population, and they are 58 days out from an election and are prepared to put into power a party that has no ideal how it would manage the financials.
The whole thing disgusts me and I don't want any part of it. Fuck the lot of them.
This, only I'd take it one step beyond.
The UK needs a revolution. That's not going to come from UKIP because despite positioning themselves as outsiders, they're not. People who really think UKIP is going to save the UK are living in a fantasy land, though UKIP can serve another purpose. I am an accelerationist, and I think the best way to solve the problems of the UK (and the West in general) is to make things so bad that it all comes to a head as soon as possible.
The best outcome of this election would be if there were massive voter fraud to keep UKIP out of power and people revolted at that.
The second best outcome would be if Labour and the Conservatives formed a super majority explicitly to block UKIP from having any say in government. That would hopefully cause the remaining scales to fall from people's eyes, such that they would revolt.
The third best outcome would be a broad coalition of the left (Labour, LibDems, Greens, SNP) that would get to implement all of their craziest ideas, again, so that the scales would fall from people's eyes and there would be a revolt.
The UK is a frog in a pot. There are two ways to stop the frog from being boiled alive. The first way -- that has been tried again and again, unsuccessfully -- is to fight with the person trying to boil the frog in order to turn the gas down. The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Time for a different approach.
The second way is not only to refuse to resist the person trying to turn the gas up, but to quickly turn the gas up as high as it will go so that the frog will get a shock and jump out of the pot before it is too late.
If the UK continues to muddle along for another couple of decades, it's game over economically, culturally and demographically. Things need to come to a head within the next decade.