George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/11/2024There are many valid explanations for the success of the far right around the world. But much of it comes down to this: The right has realised that anything is possible, while the left has persuaded itself that nothing is possible. 2923256518
wawilliams.bsky.social @wawilliams.bsky.social · 15/11/2024As I remember it the left had hope and ideas, the centre posing as the left told us nothing could change and it was all undeliverable or unelectable. 020
Stuart John Atkinson @stuartjatkinson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024You seem to be confusing the left with liberals which is surprising. It's centre-"left" and full throated "centrists" that are constantly insisting there isn't the budget for stuff. "The "left"'s main problem is their imagination of utopia can sometimes paralyse action, its too much imagination. 010
Rae McDowell @raemcdowell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024That might be your take but reality is that the right are just racist and so is much of Britain and the US, this needs to change and we can't take no for an answer! 000
Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 15/11/2024You might regret going to Oxford but sometimes I regret you didn't read Politics instead of Zoology. I can't believe you actually wrote this analysis-lite sloganistic rhetorical nonsense. Are you the real George Monbiot? 040
Lesley McG @lesleymac.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The massive financial backing by the fossil fuel oligarchy and right wing multi media is wild though. 030
I'm Chris. @chris-c-jones.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Much of it, but not all. I will *always* stand against the right-wing, capitalists, the corporations and their greed. I won't give up. I'm sure you won't either. Good to see you on here, btw. 🙂 000
Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 16/11/2024This works because the rights agenda is entropic - it's easier to break structures than build them. Trump is America's Id, which explains why he keeps winning and also why we can't win like he does, because an id can't build things. 020
Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦 @menorman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024also, they don't burden themselves w following the rules 040
nellofolddrury.bsky.social @nellofolddrury.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I agree with the theory that the far left and far right closely resemble one another - The Horseshoe Effect. So that leaves the centre ground, (which is much maligned) and the people who are apolitical. Since the beginning of humanity- it's really been a fight between good and bad, not left & right. 000
Radical Fairness @rudeeru.bsky.social · 15/11/2024One side sees possibilities, the other sees probabilities 000
Peter Timson @peterjohn.bsky.social · 16/11/2024bsky.app/profile/atru...Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com“Trump promises that you don’t have to think about other people.” (Gift article)nytimes.comOpinion | This Is the Dark, Unspoken Promise of Trump’s ReturnLiberal democracy offers moral constraints without problem-solving. Populism offers problem-solving without moral constraints. 000
Stuart Anthony @stuartanthony.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Surely they are winning because they realised all the niceties and unspoken laws of political engagement were made of mist. They can put up a felon and rapist for president and IT DOESN'T MATTER. They can lie with impunity. They worked out you can have what you want politically by just taking it. 000
sharieblue22.bsky.social @sharieblue22.bsky.social · 16/11/2024We have a cult on a mass scale and factions of cults. All the religious rhetoric targeted every religion. Mention the word "abortion," & folks lost their minds. I firmly believe the election was rigged. 000
Dan (this/that) 🇪🇺🇵🇹📷 @chopalley.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Trump government v1 showed how to do it and quickly been picked up by the right the world over: never defend, never apologise, don't look back, but do what you want. 000
The LT @theltatneil1856.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The right doesn't give a shit who it offends. The left ties itself in so many knots over who may be offended 010
The New Union Army @union-cavalry.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Or, hear me out, the right and most white people are racist and sexist... 000
Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Yes! Although I would use “persuade itself” for both 040
🎃 Marxism no Jutsu 🎃 @marxismnojutsu.bsky.social · 15/11/2024being hamstrung by the rightward-racing liberals is "persuading itself that nothing is possible"? tf 000
rauricaozaiw.bsky.social @rauricaozaiw.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The left has turned Tacitean - understand and loath the system but think the alternative is impracticable or too hard (and possibly not good for their personal interests given it it is mostly middle class now) 000
Alex Strachan @alexstrachan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I was looking around my home town the other day, separating the bright 'n shiny from the shabby and run-down parts of town, and I was forced to admit to myself that one of the biggest things about the left is how easy it is for them to say 'no.' Repeatedly. You're right. Spot-on, as the English say. 010
S.C.M @scm-author.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Or a more pithy response. The right have all the money and the people who believe they one day will also have some money...because their rich, right wing overlords tell them so. 020
S.C.M @scm-author.bsky.social · 15/11/2024alternatively, given that voter turnout has been decreasing for years in the west, fair to say that the majority feel disenfranchised? The right have ground us down to the point of rampant apathy. I'll give Labour a chance, I just fear they're too little, too late. 110
Jeremiah Savant @jpofgwynedd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024...I rather think of it that the Left tries to be reasonable, while the Right shouts a lot and throws tantrums... 000
NightMairCreative 🇨🇦 @nightmaircreative.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I think the right is willing to do whatever it takes & attracts like minded. The left has morales & wont stoop to their level- so is currently being beat 010
freepalestine25.bsky.social @freepalestine25.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Nope not the left. We believed anything was possible with Corbyn, and we still do. We were ridiculed as dreamers. You are mistaking "Centrists" for the left. The Polly Toynbee's of the world who sigh, shake their heads & say sadly, we can't change anything. The Guardian was the one of the worst. 020
Dominik Heil @dominikheil.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Isn’t it that we are stuck in right vs left thinking? Seems like we are in total denial of what is going on. Applying the thinking of the 18hundreds to the realities of the 21. century. What could go wrong? 000
S Hawk (Skyhawks) @skyhawks.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I don’t relate to this comment at all. As regards to not being confined by laws and basic character and integrity? 000
Mark Hale just wrote a novel! @ver-bat-man.eurosky.social · 16/11/2024Correction: The far-left ignores the lessons of history and insists that we pursue a political philosophy that's over 150 years out of date. They are the drag anchor of modern socialism. 000
Bribleck @bribleck.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I agree that the left is not making progress but the right has grasped how to reach low-info people 010
The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I respectfully disagree. I would say a distinction is that the right have determined the end justifies the means and the left has determined the end is limited by the means. 030
MrRightforLeft🍉🕎✌️✊ @mrcansays.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I don't know about that George, I have to respectfully disagree. I think the right see what the possibilities are and it scares them. It sees that it is possible for everyone to climb the ladder and those at the top are not particularly special. 010
Maria @marialindgren.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Where can we look for some hope? I have three children, and I am scared. There have to some grown-ups somewhere. 000
Johann S 🇨🇮🇺🇦 ⬅️ @johannshiel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I’d broadly go along with that. We need a ‘Libertine Left’, because I really hate bureaucracy too, and I don’t see why I have to be a Trump fanboy to hate bureaucracy. I want the NHS mission to be to treat, cure and care for as many people at the lowest cost. Does that make me a Rightwinger? 000
Elaine @elaine5.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The right have the money. They influence the 'persuadables' on soc media. Enough are not interested in serious politics. If it was discovered Musk had devised a way of rigging the election, I wld not b surprised. Oligarchy rules. 010
KJ @coddiwompler.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The media gave the RW the space to spout their lies & still does. The media helped in attacking the left & still does. Some, so called journalists need to take a hard look at themselves. They helped to destroy the chance we had, and are partially responsible for the mess this country/world is in. 000
Dedicated Democrat @jbmi.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I have a different theory: If you give them something to hate and you scream loud enough, the dysfunctional will do whatever they're told. MAGA-GOP used 'The Missing White Voter Theory' on unsuspecting obsequious ponces to enrich themselves and their elitist benefactors. They're an experiment. 000
Andy C @ayceecee.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I think it's got more to do with the right controlling the media 3380
Michael 🏴 @michaeljh92.bsky.social · 16/11/2024It's also much easier to hate. Solving problems is complex and scary, blaming it on the other or burying your head in the sand and pretending it's a conspiracy is easy. 000
Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 16/11/2024That, and the reluctance of anyone vaguely left-of-centre to even think of getting pitchforks and torches and marching on the monster's castle. 000
Dan @danmread.uk · 15/11/2024Tony Blair used to quote Michael Heseltine as saying to him that Labour will win an election whenever it wants to. Whatever your thoughts on these two men, it seems even more insightful now. 000
annie5545.bsky.social @annie5545.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Sorry, but that isn’t true. It’s a nice little phrase, but to say that Kamala Harris thought nothing was possible is a huge injustice. 000
carcass man @carcassman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024when the left faces an l we shouldnt give up. we should be angry. we should lift each other up. we should see what we did wrong and learn from it. defeatism is never the answer 000
Juno @junoionouni.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The right appeases capital with simple solutions to complex problems that do not challenge the actual causes. Maybe next time don't help them by attacking an actual left wing alternative 110
Ron James @digitmusic.bsky.social · 15/11/2024…and that lies travel 200 times around the planet (social media) before the truth can respond. 010
curiouskittyk.bsky.social @curiouskittyk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Something that Starmer’s Labour needs to grasp 000
cb24resident.bsky.social @cb24resident.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The Right lie, cheat, steal, con. The left don’t. 000
ReSister @lizgalaida.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I think the right is just better at finding the lowest common denominator. "Lowest" being the operative word there. 000
Breezy Beezy @breezybeezy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I think you could mention the emphasis of the individual too v the group mentality. Thatcher promoted the individual. 000
Richard Saunders @richardsaundersbu.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Sorry, George. It is the climate crisis. The Huns just didn't wish to vacation 3,000 miles from home or, for that matter, the Vikings either. 000
Lines of Silence @linesofsilence.com · 15/11/2024The (far) right have surrendered to paranoia, delusion and conspiracy. They know what a compelling story this tells, whether they truly it believe or not. The left is not good at story telling imo - and can be seen as hectoring and pious. We need more compelling narratives to take on the right. 010
Cubeytheawesome @cubeytheawesome.bsky.social · 15/11/2024under a 2 party system, nothing gets done 000
Barbara @Barbara-m.bsky.social @barbara-m.bsky.social · 15/11/2024No idea where I am on political spectrum. Small farms, fishermen, businesses deserve success. Employees deserve a 'living' wage. Children/students need positive edu; they're future employers/employees. Social support/no discrimination-it could be you. NHS. Conserve nature, it sustains us. 000
boomer208.bsky.social @boomer208.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Wrong. When the Right Wing understands that those who control the media narrative, controls the people. Campaigning is for those who think the cattle is still in the barn. This years election proves a candidate can actively campaign to lose, and still win. Pavlov’s theory in human form. 010
kevinadiamond.bsky.social @kevinadiamond.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The right is using alternative facts to look creative. Left has forgotten how to be creative as thinks naively that all rights secured. We have to get creative. Starting with letting us the people decide our future EU relationship. 010
Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · 16/11/2024@georgemonbiot.bsky.social how about we organise a Totnes based Party of the Possible to fire up our determination to keep on keeping on? @westcountryvoices.bsky.social 000
Vladimir Tabakovic @boodie123.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I think that there is a disproportion in means (money) available to invest in propaganda ... 000
susannahdefere.bsky.social @susannahdefere.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Yes. The far right promise hope. The left insists on soggy veg before pudding. 000
Juejuebeans 🦋 @juejuebeans.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The far right has realised that truth is expendable, rules are for the weak and competence is not a requirement to Govern. 010
Thomas Ableman @freewheeling.info · 15/11/2024I completely agree with this. You really see this in the difference between attitudes to Brexit and climate change: the Eurosceptics worked for decades to shape and manipulate public opinion, whereas it has just been axiomatic that people won’t pull together for the common good. 010
André Sobolewski @andre-sobolewski.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I'm getting the impression that figuring out a new medium is key to political success, and the the far right has figured out how to abuse social media whereas the left has not. 230
That.American @thatamerican.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The Main reason is they aren't Far Right. How do I KNow. They Aren't wedded to stupidity like you in the Far Left are. WE Just want things to work for the average gal and guy. You really need to come to grips with that. All you clowns pissing hate 24/7 is a bit bizarre. 000
Ianstone1 @ianstone1.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I think there’s more likelihood that the right will say anything, even what they know to be untrue, whilst the left wring their hands trying to be accurate the message becomes too obscure hence “never going back” vs “M AGA”. One was true, the other BS… 010
Gerkin @gerkins.bsky.social · 15/11/2024No I disagree. We remain 49:51 and the odds improve with time and experience. The right loses when people are more informed. Even just millimetres more informed. Look at UK and Brexit 000
Bach Mass @bachmass.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The far right remembers when everything around them was suppressed by, managed by, owned by white people. They want to return to that. The left wants to realize something different. Easier to return to something old than to build something new and inclusive. 000
drdrewpiniella.bsky.social @drdrewpiniella.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Wealthy people (oligarchs) generally have control over the levers of power, even in “democracies.” Even those in power who are “on the left” never prioritize the needs of the working class and ordinary people. At the end of the day, these people prefer a Trump vs. a Sanders or a Corbyn. 000
Quentin P @quentinpx.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Just so not true. The right has known for a long time it can create reality (Karl Rove on). And the left assumes reality doesn't need defending. We believe that anything IS possible including beating Dirty Donnie. But without defeating his lies? Nope. Which is why we're here. To fight. 000
J Green @jgreen63.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The far right can get away with anything. The left has to be squeaky clean. 010
dianehain.bsky.social @dianehain.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I am not quite there yet, I still retain hope for better. The right will do anything, full every unsavoury lever, ruthlessly lie, cheat, divide, scorch & burn; but the left I believe retain values and for that I haven’t given up on them. 000
Solitudinis @esolitudinis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The left sold out, used the There Is No Alternative excuse as it actively pursued the same destructive capitalism tactics the right support. Hard democrat voters telling decent people that peace is impossible while their party kept snatching billions for their military complex cronies sums it up. 010
Asher MacDonald @clydestarr.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Do you think it has anything to do with a massive misinformation, disinformation, propaganda war being waged? A war backed by hostile nations propaganda armies and unlimited resources of tech oligarchs supporting the overthrow of democracy and conversion of the global economy into a crypto economy. 000
rogermc.bsky.social @rogermc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Personally I think it is more that the Left is only successful if everyone benefits, the Right claims success when only a very few benefit, the question is why so many who won’t and never will benefit from the Right support them 020
Don @donwynne6.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I think its more nuanced The right have taken control of the media and used it to persuade almost everybody that the right have the answers to world problems and are not, as the left proscribe, the cause of many of them. 'Look everybody agrees with me' Is a persuasive argument to most.media.tenor.coma man wearing a baseball cap and a jacket that says all of usALT: a man wearing a baseball cap and a jacket that says all of us 010
OddThomas81 @oddthomas81.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The left follow the rules. The right cheat so they always win. 000
HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Not true. We believe that a better world is possible. In fact, we demand it. We don't have the resources the right have, which is why we have to resist and build from the grassroots. 061
EC Antifa Association @resistfascismus.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Dumb down the masses, trample them with oppression, and they will cheer on the oppressor. #resistance 021
Simon #FBPE🏉🏏🪃🇫🇷🇪🇺🇳🇪 @simoninfuriated.bsky.social · 15/11/2024It’s far simpler than that. The right appeal to the most base of human instincts. Those of us with IQ of average of above realise that and realise it’s wrong. However, there are a lot of thickies it appeals to. 020
Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos @tdelphos.bsky.social · 15/11/2024If you go back even to 2003, there were plenty of people in the antiwar actions back then who actually believed in the possibility of a world without war, destitution, oppression, or environmental collapse. How much of that do we see today? It's the rightists who see Dominion in their grasp 100
CeRaTi @guyastral.bsky.social · 15/11/2024the right is well organised and most importantly, very well funded 0100
ivanobrien.bsky.social @ivanobrien.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Is it not more the case that the left is paralysed by the complexity of achieving things while the right pretends that everything is simple and doesn’t care about collateral damage? 000
Paul.Phillips.fr @lerosbif.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I prefer to think of it as the right tell people what they want to hear, the left tell people what they need to hear 070
Ms Robot (governed by idiots) @trudi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024In 2017 we had a left wing leader of the Labour Party, voted for by the members (twice) who gave us all hope for the future and had fantastic, fully costed plans to make this country a better place, and his own party did everything they could to get rid of him and destroy his reputation. 000
Panama Red @panamared27401.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Close. The left has persuaded the right, by allowing the right to commit great crimes with impunity, that the right can get away with anything. 010
Jon Harvey 💙🏴🌞🦢🌍Ⓥ🕊️🖊️🏴🦠🇵🇸 @jonsharvey.bsky.social · 16/11/2024There are other paths... #TheMayorsBear (alt text: book cover of "The Mayor's Bear" - just search online bookshop of your choice) 000
Martin 📎🇪🇺🏳️⚧️ @martinmto.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The right exploit the uneducated masses through the billionaire media. Unless Government reforms the media it will continue. No UK media unless based and pay tax in the UK. Murdoch, Rothmere, GB News et al. 1113
NE @nathe89.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I’m not sure I agree with your analysis of the lefts position. I think it’s more to do with trying to unravel the damage done by the right. It’s a vicious circle and cyclic environment to operate in. 000
Micah @themicah.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I don’t see their message as “anything is possible” but “more is possible for YOU if you don’t share with THEM.” After several generations of massive social/economic improvement, kids aren’t as sure they’ll be better off than their parents, making this zero-sum philosophy seem sensible. 000
Mask Wearing Doggie @tbas7000.bsky.social · 16/11/2024We are in the portion of the 80 year cycle of history, per Strauss & Howe, when fascism is at its peak, worldwide. IF the good people step up and fight back, they are defeated. 000
Radio Jammor @radiojammor.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Don't agree. What the far right has done, is what it has always done. It has appealed to idiots and bigots. What the left has failed to do is appeal to idiots, or acknowledge how many of them there are. 3150
Dave Davey David @dav-i-d.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Nah The right think that "if most people think it it must be right" The left think "I'm not thinking the same way as most people " 000
Arby Em 🇿🇲 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 @arbyem.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Given who the right is selecting for Cabinet positions in the U.S., the left had better stop thinking we need more experts to lead us and start mobilizing because the right isn’t waiting 000
Goro Akechi @skullkidtermina.bsky.social · 15/11/2024A bit of an over simplification given the left wants to tackle climate change with action while the right pretends it doesn’t exist 170
MikeReigns4 @mikereigns.bsky.social · 15/11/2024This is simply not true. Less than 10 years ago the Labour Party doubled in size inspired by hope. 010
EddieD1967🇵🇸 @eddiedoc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The right also control the mainstream media. If we can't change that everything will be very difficult. 070
Osmary Lisbeth @osmarylisbeth.bsky.social · 15/11/2024pienso que la gente debería abrir los ojos, y salir del blanco y negro, o izquierdas y derechas, como le quieran llamar, igual en cuerpo somos ambos lados, un individuo y todos estamos en habitad en el mismo mundo. 010
Rachel W @rachw.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Not that it isn’t possible, but that it leaves you vulnerable when you speak up. No insult is too low for some. 000
R1ch1e5 @r1ch1e5.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Left politicians are too busy navigating their self imposed fear of RW media criticism, whereas the RW don’t give a fcuk and do as they like with impunity. It’s why Trump wasn’t locked up in four years of tread carefully Biden government & why Labour still tow a disastrous Brexit line. 2232
S Roy Chowdhury @sroychowdhury.bsky.social · 15/11/2024This is a crisis of conservatism. Not our (liberal) circus. 000
Venice Bellamy (author) @venicebellamy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024That's how I ended up falling down Libertarian pipeline. I was socialist and it felt hopeless. I fully embraced it too, writing several novellas only to get depressed again by lack of sales. 000
Just G @just-1-g.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Bullshit. Making money more important than moral is why the oppressive "right wing" has gained footholds. If we want to keep democracy we MUST get big money/ dark money out of politics. 010
indybuddie.bsky.social @indybuddie.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The left have bought into the idea of the political pendulum - that the right ward swing will correct itself by some law of nature - whereas the right see this as a ratchet mechanism. We need to work to reverse the ratchet. 000
Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social · 15/11/2024It helps that virtually all of our political institutions were designed by powerful white people for the purpose of increasing and maintaining white power. Trying to use Western political systems to advance goals in the public interest is like trying to sink a screw with a hammer. 1261
themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 15/11/2024We treat left and right as equivalents but they are such different beasts. I think the left does suffer from "I think this this good and right", therefore "this is how it should be"... and "I don't feel I need to persuade anyone of the benefit" 000
Andrew Sinclair @bluesprints.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I'd say that the Right has learned that it/they can lie with complete impunity. There are no guardrails against them doing so. The Left hasn't yet collapsed into lying. 000
ProgGrrl @proggrrl.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The right is fine with full on lying to everyone constantly, the left is not. Also, about half the adults in the US have the critical thinking/reading skills of a middle school child. 010
Jed Shed @jedshed.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Think you're likely confusing the left with the libs there. There's a lot of it about, tbh. 010
Vin Maratty @slandsocialist.bsky.social · 16/11/2024No, the capitalist class uses scapegoats to divert blame 010
Elaine @veganelaine.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Disagree. Is trying to get the first woman US president elected how a team that believes nothing is possible behaves? 100
Mike Elliott @mikusthewriter.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Yes. He still was found by Colorado court to be an #insurrectionist and is thus disqualified from the presidency under the 14th Amendment. Previous case decided states couldn’t remove him from ballot. Fine. He was on the ballot. But he’s still disqualified. What happened to when we fight we win? 000
Maggie Webster @maggiewebster.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Could it be that the right ferociously look after their own, whereas the left need to do more to lift people living in deprivation? 000
Dendon @cielenbleu.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The right has realized that they can lie and not face consequences. The left refuses to lie and believes in the inherent goodness of people. 000
Chris Pomfret @chrispomfret.bsky.social · 16/11/2024More than ever before the right has coordinated its efforts and is more prepared to lie. 020
Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I am not one of those people. Trump's victory has made me see the importance of grassroots activism and communities in change making (and keeping.) 1131
Amanda @doramaqueen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I'm not sure that's entirely true. I think the genuine left, absolutely believe anything is possible. The problem is too many liberals (who think they're left-wing) have chosen to be gatekeepers for Capitalism & would rather protect their own privilege; than allow the left any access to power. 4193
D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The truth is critical analysis of sources isn't taught AND the mainstream media and online social media pushes relentlessly right wing ideology and simple right leaning populist answers that people just soak up. Done by both domestic ideologues and hostile foreign actors 100
Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 15/11/2024A pretty astute observation - but I wouldn't say it applies to everyone on the left... 010
RF_Dude Слава Україні 🇺🇦 @rfdude.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I disagree. The right has realized (for a long time) that lying and manipulation and brute force work much better than reason when they sell their unreasonable & bankrupt ideas, while the left has never tried to sugar coat the hard work necessary to accomplish good things. 010
Tom @comfortablytom.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I think it's because being right-wing is easy. No nuance, just black/white, right/wrong, blame everyone else instead of trying to make things better. 050
Harry Barnes @harrybarnes.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Don't recognise it as such, in fact, the other way around. Left wing ideas that should help everyone are seen as impossible by the right, whereas the right generally believe in the impossible as they're factually or plainly the wrong thing to do. 020
Kitty Bhagat @voiceinwilderness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I feel it's more complex than that. Thomas Malthus predicted human population growth would eventually outstrip Earth's resources: water, farmland, food. Whether or not they realize it, ppl. instinctively know there will be a fight for survival. Ethnic wars Border closures Genocide. H2O vanishing. 000
Perfect Orb 🍄 @perfectorb.bsky.social · 16/11/2024No, centrists believe nothing can happen, leftists believe in overcoming capitalism! 020
Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024As a member of the Green Party in England, and connected long term to various Green orgns, I think there is rather more optimism in the broad Green movement because of recognition that pessimism is abdication too often. The left retreats into its own history and analyses; Green orgns motivate acts. 000
Jeffo @jeffotherefo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Garbage. The success of the right is the result of the triumph of capital. Unrestrained by taxation or a sense of responsibility capital has invested in and successfully supported right-wing 'libertarian' groups who mistakenly promote even less restraints and less taxation on capital. 010
Irritated Llama @irritatedllama.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The Left never try to redress the balance of power when they are in office. They just accept the power structures in place. They SHOULD be holding the crooks to account and pulling us back towards the center. 020
muzzac.bsky.social @muzzac.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Unbelievably trite, George, and certainly not accurate. I prefer it when you present a reasoned argument, rather than a greetings card aphorism. 010
Judith_IP @judith-ip.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I think much of it comes down to this: Hate and stupidity sells. 010
Dominic Rivron @dominicrivron.bsky.social · 16/11/2024If you represent the ruling class, anything *is* possible: what you want to happen is what would happen if the world were managed by the ruling class without the inconvenience of elected government. Your only problem is selling it to voters which, if you're unscrupulous, is not that difficult. 000
Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Also the right never gives an inch. Any progress made by the left, however small, is seen as something to be stamped on and undone immediately. Anything they do is must be treated as permanent and irreversible. 020
KZ Comments w/o A Commentary @kzcomments.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Those decisions are made at the DAVOS meetings 000
DoloressEd@GDudek61 @deloresedd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The rich have control of the media & have always had it. This is used to fuel the far right & control the overton window. Giving liberals the main voice as the alternative. The left needs proper media outlets to claim back the narrative. Unions would do better to fund this rather than Labour 000
William Thomson @williameconomist.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I agree George. We have a failure of imagination. 000
handle.invalid @lemondropp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024the right make things a bit worse, so people feel insecure and a bit miserable and become less liberal. then the right make things a bit worse... 060
Jerome @jeromegill.com · 15/11/2024Not quite. The left regularly wants things. It's the centre that says nothing is possible. So we get things like 5p plastic bags and deals involving short pauses on oil drilling contracts, starting in 2 years, and promises to honor any signed in the meanwhile. 041
fozzy878.bsky.social @fozzy878.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The far right is supported by moneyed interest. There true left is not. The main centre left parties are supported by big business and set up to pass nothing. Literally there to make us question govt efficacy. We need to build power structure behind the left again. Strong unions, mass protests. 000
skeet dreams (of you) @judenonesuch.bsky.social · 15/11/2024What’s that, George? “Whenever the left has ran a platform that anything is possible they are relentless ratfucked into oblivion by the sensible Centre”? I couldn’t agree more! 171
Lisa L Worth @lislou.bsky.social · 15/11/2024So true. It’s utterly shocking, what some think acceptable to brandish as truth, right, decent. Stiff that even ten years ago would be considered cruel, bigoted and plain bad for humanity. 000
Stephen Morley @geraldwinstanley.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I would put it that the right has tapped into a strong sense of resentment among many, allowing for radical unorthodox ideas; much of the left is attached to left social democracy (Corbyn), which isn’t radical enough. 000
Flat Six @flatsix723.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I think the right has harnessed the power of doing whatever it takes to do whatever it wants, regardless of consequence, while the left still believes that the moral stance can be effective. To overcome extremism, liberals need to first understand how extremists think. 011
Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The far right has two things 'the left' doesn't: (1) A coherent story (i.e. go back to the past) and (2) Unity (as Trump said, he could shoot someone and they'd still support him) In contrast, the left sell minor, incremental changes changes to the status quo while attacking each other on purity, 100
Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The right is in fascist lockstep with itself while the left is herding cats focused on their own interests above other interests. Sigh. 000
Simon Kavanagh @greenspacesimon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The right has always successfully boiled complex issues down to easy fixes. Often erroneously but in a short news cycle it works. The left often over-grapple with some issues, currently prioritising identity issues above obvious class-based explanations. That lack of articulation is so frustrating. 1130
