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What’s amazing about Johnson is that even after a year in which he has absolutely failed in every single metric, he still manages to be incredibly popular for a UK PM.
He fails upwards, and everyone else suffers as a result. https://twitter.com/i/events/1345667944370511872
He fails upwards, and everyone else suffers as a result. https://twitter.com/i/events/1345667944370511872
The UK has had one of the worlds worse COVID responses, and tens of thousands of people have died as a result, and many more have had to suffer with it (many of whom still do). Then, our Brexit deal was incredibly last minute, and worse than what May proposed last year.
Boris ‘tries’ to simultaneously appeal to his upper-class peers, and also his very working class populist base - as a result he ends up pleasing nobody and everyone loses.
Yet he’s still popular because he’s good at projecting his imagine.
Yet he’s still popular because he’s good at projecting his imagine.
The popularity of Johnson after this year, and even the massive popularity of Trump after the fucking laundry list of things he’s done is really illustrative of wider and deeper systemic problems in our society - people’s basic needs and problems not being dealt with.
Instead people blame minority groups for their problems, or the government, or a conspiracy theory, or something else deflected. Then these useless populist cunts can keep saying they’re working on their behalf while just continuing to deflect blame for people’s genuine issues.
I’ve said this a billion times: I’m a massive supporter of electoral reform, and I believe it can help start to heal a lot of the massive rifts on our society. People need to be and feel properly represented in a democracy before anything else can happen. https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk
This helps illustrate the problem. People feel like they can’t identify with or support any other politicians because they’re so detached from their lives and personalities.
Populist politicians latch onto that, while not actually doing anything to help said people. https://twitter.com/light110819/status/1345756200776953858
Populist politicians latch onto that, while not actually doing anything to help said people. https://twitter.com/light110819/status/1345756200776953858
A lot of the people who like Trump or Johnson, are people who’ve been historically ignored in the political space, who feel like their voices aren’t being heard, and suffer from economic hardship or want to improve their life. That core is pretty universal to everyone, BUT..
..populists take those frustrations and exploit them, rather than actually try to help. They deflect the blame away from themselves and onto immigrants, the left, the EU, ‘globalists’, refugees, China, ethnic minorities, ‘socialism’. Anything distant enough from them.
Because of that, everyone focuses on the very prominent result of populism, rather than the actual genuine core issues people have which populists just exploit.
It just results in a feedback loop. If you want to help, fix the core systemic issues first. https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk
It just results in a feedback loop. If you want to help, fix the core systemic issues first. https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk
