The coming culture wars....

`The efforts spent on defending our turf in the culture wars could be better served on loving our neighbor as ourselves.”
― Allen Yeh, 

The coming culture wars.... There is a clear "Brexit betrayal" discourse coming. It will feed the Far Right far into the future. The Sun calls time on the Maybot. The Mail has already been echoing the Weimar headlines of "enemies of the people" .There is no certainty that a series of indicative votes will solve anything. Despite five million signatures and a vast revoke march through London the latest poll reveals that only 35% of the population support remain. If there was a poll I would vote remain again yet I suspect that the leave victory this time would be my 20%. All of these factors facing the neoliberal agenda are symptoms of its sickness and not causes. The only solution now will be a General Election and a referendum on a deal negotiated by Corbyn, Thorn bury, Gardiner and Starmer .

These symptoms also mask a coming culture war between the libertarian left and the authoritarian right. I hear once more the dulcet bitter tones of Nigel Evans MP on Radio 4 wanting to turn back the clock to a world that has gone and gad even gone when we were young. The old farts in our 60s like myself have a simple choice. We must choose between being those who open the door to new possibilities and a new society or become the bitter old men (yes and I di mean men) getting their white, right and blighted binary fictional society back. These are the two discourses locked in battle. The crisis of Brexit is really about these cultural forms. All Brexiteers are not bigots but all bigots are Brexiteers. All remainers are not centrists but all or most centrists are remainers. The Venn diagram is complex on Brexit but the diagram is only a fraction of reality. The map is partial and obscure, as we move ahead. Yet the map is not the territory. It's about culture and culture wars.. and it's about to begin....in the USA Trump will be perceived to have won following Mueller..its up to us to prevent a right wing Brexit winning here...

There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.

Joseph Goebbels