thoughts on a November morning.....one year on
.it's no accident that in
the USA last year Latinos, African Americans, women and the young did
not voting for Donald Trump...it's no accident that the white American
male frightened by feminism, frightened by the implications of a
multi-cultural society, alarmed by the challenge of variable sexuality
and gender roles fled into the arms of a billionaire whose family and
corporation has given them sub standard housing, fought and threatened
health care........it's no accident that the white working class have
been seduced, hypnotised and controlled by their fears...it is no
accident that Marx wrote of this over one hundred years ago....it's no
accident that the white working class who have been de-skilled and
confused by a right wing press turn to the public school educated Tory
stockbroker that is Nigel Farage...its no accident that Nigel Farage,
Donald Trump and Marine Lepen have used the old concept of divide and
rule over and over again.......it's no accident that our education
system is constructed to create a docile working force..it's no accident
that the emphasis on training and skills is about work and not about
thinking.....it's no accident that the Trumps and Farage`s of this world
do not wish an education system that helps people to think critically
...it's no accident is it? If the system helped us to think for
ourselves we would have all the wealth creating, creative thinking
people we would need. That is exactly what Trump would not want...is it?
Often on these dark mornings I glance out from the bus windows as I
travel from Ystradgynlais to Swansea. Particularly in the last few
months I see my Grandfather in my reflection. Wilfred Earnest Hazlewood
was in the trenches of World War 1 one hundred years ago. It was a
Europe riven by nationalism, the millionaires of that time were arms
dealers as they are now. The ruling elites were sacrificing the white
working class of Europe on the altars of war. In Wilfred's lifetime
there were two wars, the building of the welfare state, the building of
the European community. He always kept faith in a simpler more decent
world and died before the coming of Thatcher and her championing of
hyper capitalism disguised by pseudo family values. This time again as
crude nationalism rises the white working class are are being led back
to the sacrificial altars hypnotised as once before. Marx was right all
along and its time to take off the mask and see the Holy Trump and the
blessed Nigel for who they really are. Last week I blocked over 20
people on Facebook I have had enough of ..they certainly had fallen to
the Pied Pipers trance-like as they marched to the high
altar.......clinging to their god and Guns
So guns ate not the
issue...its mental health that's the problem.. .Erm so therefore
religion is the problem...if we did not have people meeting in
church...guns would not be a problem....erm perhaps it's God's fault for
letting people worship there.. .Erm but don't mention the guns....if a
man with brown skin kills 8 people TRUMP calls out for banjo g
immigration....when 25 people are killed by a white man from a former
military background...we should not be hasty... IRONY alert.....
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