White Liberal Policies cause more problems than Extremist Hatemongering
By Bartolin1980
@Bartolin1980 (98)
Ireland
January 16, 2007 5:48pm CST
This is something that interests me and while I expect a lot of people to disagree with me, I feel that it's worth discussing. I believe that a great deal of the problems facing the world in this day and age are caused by the erosion of community-feeling in a lot of powerful countries which I directly relate to liberal governments alienating large sectors of the community, pandering to the whims of small but vocal minorities and generally leading to grass-roots distrust in modern politics.
To illustrate this I would take the case of Britain where the only political party that remains true to it's roots appears to be the National Front with their odious rhetoric. The left is a joke- the true leftists are more intent on infighting than on a common agenda and the leftist parties with the most actual power have an inverse proportion of true leftist policy-making. The right then well it's either far-right nut-cases or again wishy-washy liberals who are terrified of saying anything meaningful lest they should offend anyone.
Is the answer to use authoritarian repression policies as an antidote to this gradual homogenisation of the world powers into global states of bland conformity? And as a result, is the US attacking the wrong countries?
1 response
@4ftfingers (1310)
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17 Jan 07
i think i know what you mean. to be honest i think the liberal governments are playing to the tabloids. the majoirty of britons arn't liberal but the tabloids tend to be, and so to be celebrated by the tabloids you have to spout liberal rhetoric. this is because it is the papers that give these minorities the voice. i'm not against this, freedom of speech is our right, each person may say as they please but like you say it has compromised the sense of community and individuality. i fail to see how 'merry christmas' can be offensive. if it's that bad, shield your eyes! i saw a man wearing a dress the other day (i'm not sure what religion he was). i could say i find men wearing dresses offensive but i dont because i know that in itself sounds offensive and insensitive. but i have a feeling it all may just be a trend. lately tabloids have been repeating how immigrant's are offending Britons and what a surprise blair starts telling immigrant's they must fit in. tabloids: woohooo go blair!! yeaahh!
@Bartolin1980 (98)
• Ireland
17 Jan 07
And tabloids only participate in a semblance of a political dialogue which is really a popularity contest, just like politics in general- if politicians were more interested in the welfare of their people and of their countries than in getting elected or reelected then perhaps they would get something done-but they don't and so it goes on and on.
A case in point is British participation in the Iraqi conflict, it's great for Conservatives to have something to attack Blair over but would they have done any different in his position- I doubt it, he was basically forced into compliance through business interests (I'm not defending him by the way) politics is always a damage limitation exercise or a series of photo opp.s
@4ftfingers (1310)
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17 Jan 07
exactly, it's so easy for the conservatives to publicly slate the labour government for invoving our country in war, they know that blair would never state in public the real reasons such as the business interests, particularly two of our biggest companies, and biggest in the world of their kind: BP and Shell.
I fear british politics is going the way, or has already gone the way of americna politics, votes based on celebrity rather than quality of policy, complete with insencere, cheesy, catchy lines. i know some won't agree with that but i see the terminator as governor of california as a classic example.
