Originally Posted by
swaledale
Which to be fair is largely the British (English?) way? So as the NHS gets hammered into the ground, to create a situation where the "only" alternative is privatisation, where NHS dentists are as rare as yeti, where austerity, strangling services was the answer to rich bankers ripping us off, where putting up interest rates to combat inflation, even though its doing nowt of the sort as the inflation isn't caused by wage rises, is making some very well off and where lying and falsehoods has become endemic within government, the answer is suck it up?
Yep that's largely the case for the unenlightened, others however through support of political parties who represent change or through making sure the discussion of whats happening is held ensure that it isn't dropped from the general discourse.
Little things can have bigger effects and there is a considerable body of people in this country who are working towards reversing the harm done by Brexit and more widely by 13 years of Tory disastrous Tory rule.
How can "ordinary" people change this, well by thinking about who they vote for for a start. But even keeping the discussion going on Forum's like this is helpful. Some of us are active politically it all helps. Apathy and pretending nothing has changed achieves nowt.
Well it does, as those Germans who "sucked it up and got on with it" as Hitler took power and gradually implemented his aims. They enabled what happened next. For those that think the comparison is overblown, look at the groups like the ERG, and other shadowy think tanks and "research groups" that manoeuvre behind the scenes.
Consider the actions taken by this government, to many who think it doesn't affect them, well not now but it will, increasing authoritarian laws on strikes, peaceful demonstrations, the scapegoating of immigrants and asylum seekers, the obvious and borderline corruption, these and more are straight out of the play book of right wing authoritarian regimes.
Of course people adapt and carry on with life, I've been in countries where the corruption and poverty is appalling, yet people do carry on their day to day lives, I wonder how they do that, but at the same time, when they do respond when the time is right for change.
Yep collaboration and acquiescing to authoritarianism is an "attitude of mind" its enabled many a despot achieve their aims in history and its not a very good look!