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Because that 'broad political middle ground' actually just perpetuates the gross political and economic imbalance causing real world harms to the people trapped in its endless abuse. Sadly, most are kept ignorant of the reasons for this, so their anger causes them to lash out.
Area man shocked to discover how local governance works...
So Lord Byron used his maiden speech in the Lords to defend the Luddites. The only 'pro-Luddite' speech ever made in either houses.
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Taxing billionaires alone does not abolish the system that allows them to exist. The economic structures that concentrate wealth and power remain intact.
The implementation of a democratic economic system—one where becoming a billionaire is structurally impossible—is absolutely necessary.
I honestly bore myself constantly bleating into the void about the Labour Party, but the fact is that under this shambling, vindictive corpse of a government, people's basic rights are being rolled back in more extreme ways than any of the Conservative regimes we had since 2010. it's truly dystopian
Bicycle campaigners and enthusiasts have been directly shaping and influencing the capital's transport policy at considerable taxpayer expense since at least 2013: www.london.gov.uk/press-releas.... They form a highly effective middle-class pressure group.
Why do our societies seem so deeply divided when most citizens actually occupy a broad political middle ground?
@steffenmau.bsky.social, @thomaslux.bsky.social & @lwestheuser.bsky.social unpack this paradox in Trigger Points, pub. today @brisunipress.bsky.social, Foreward @mikesavagelse.bsky.social
