Election Year or Fear!

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Fartrage appeals to a certain type of person. The stupid who believe conspiracy theories. Those convinced they are being done down and Fartrage is the only one to tell them who's to blame even though they are not the reason why although they are part of it. Much of it is down to everything that has helped turn the wealth gap into a gaping gorge. Maggie started the ball rolling, destroying a fair bit of UK manufacturing, the mines, steel... It's carried on ever since.

Close to home, Burton has been ruined by multinationals buying up the breweries and shutting much of the brewing down reducing the number of well paid jobs in the industry and in brewing related companies in Burton from >10K to around 1K. Those well paid jobs have been replaced by low paid, menial, unskilled low pay jobs. The pwople of the town are poorer than they were pre Coors etc and that has seen the town centre go down hill fast. Still never mind that an entire town ansd its surrounds had been financially screwed over, the shareholders are still doing well.

The rich are getting ever richer and the rest are fcuked.

Folk know they are fcuked and grifters are showing them who to blame and that is everybody except the rich and the grifters.

Same the world over. Trump and the rich now rule the roost and I am starting to doubt that the midterms will take place. IMO, if he's not stopped, the US will be a dictatorship soon run by the rich and their lackeys. Just like China and Russia at the moment.

Not a lot to disagree with there. Any human system is going to be imperfect, its run by humans after all, but whats worrying is that the controls and checks and balances that used to keep the extremes in check are being removed and many people seem unable to recognise that.

I'm not as pessimistic as you RP, because I do believe that there is a substantial body of people who are not passive in the face of Trump's outrageous behaviour, the push back in Minnesota demonstrates this, whatever ones views on individual issues, the actions of an armed militia roaming the streets with no accountability is not something the average American will stand for. Trump will overreach himself he hasn't the intelligence or guile not to.


Democracy isn't perfect, but it enables a functioning society where a peaceful compromise can be reached, most people recognise that one party does not have all the answers. Capitalism has proven the most successful economic system, but unfettered or unregulated capitalism is in nobodys interests.