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#inequality

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HelloMstdn

Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature
- George Monbiot

Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human natureBy George Monbiot
#GeorgeMonbiot#Monbiot#Inequality
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@rberger

Before reading the rest of article by George Monbiot I asked myself why & first answer was political agendas warped by political party campaign funding. Ability of some few to control media messaging doesn’t help either. But I would like more discussion on other ‘whys’ e.g. (as suggested/ nominated by Monbiot):

“centrist parties paralysed in the face of economic power. In hock to rich funders, terrified of the billionaire media, for decades they have been unable even to name the problem, let alone address it. Hence the spectacular uselessness of the Democrats’ response to Trump. As the US journalist Hamilton Nolan remarks: “One party is out to kill, and the other is waiting for its leaders to die.” “

#USPol # UKPol #AusPol #inequality #ReconnectingConsequencesToCauses

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Juggling With Eggs

‘The progress of society, #Hayek held, depends on the liberty of ‘independents’ to gain as much money as they want, and to spend it as they wish.

All that is good and useful therefore arises from #inequality.

A free society in his mind, became one in which the state helped eliminate firebreaks that prevented #capitalism’s conflagration from consuming the world.

…in 1974 Hayek was awarded the Nobel Economics Prize.’

George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison

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It is time for our railway to put the people who use it first - demand the government do these four things:

Reinstate the railway’s duty to cater for disabled persons and the environment
Create a publicly owned train leasing company - to stop billions being taken out of our railway in dividends
Give passengers a real voice - so that the railway is democratically accountable to us
Invest in the railway - this will enable the government to cut fares and attract more people to the railway

Transport is devolved, but this public consultation will feed into legislation that will affect the whole of the UK.

So this affects you whether you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. Take just 1 minute to respond to the consultation now.
Ask the government to run our railway for people, not profit
crm.weownit.org.uk/civicrm/mai
#railways #UKpolitics #inequality #nationalisation #petition

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