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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 1h

“The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans”

Then why did you host this guy?

Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 3h

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 3h

3/ It could be about ‘wokery’, or statues, or flags, or just about anything to get you angry, so long as you don’t ask them for solutions to your problems. Because when all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a culture war”

- Pete Buttigieg

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 3h

2/ They don’t know how to deal with rising house prices, rising energy prices, or what to do about the inflation shock that’s coming. That’s not great territory for them to be on, so they find a culture war issue to distract you.

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 3h

1/ “We have politicians who genuinely don’t have a lot of answers to the serious problems the public are struggling with. They have no answers when it comes to poor productivity. They have no solutions to wage stagnation, or tax rises, or student loans.

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 3h

This might seem an odd choice & I might be influenced by the fact that he is one of my mother’s friends, but what about Muhammad Yunus? Nobel prize winner, has a PhD in economics, Medal of Freedom winner, ex-Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University & as far as I know, no public opinion on Brexit.

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 4h

Americans have to face a hard truth. One of their two major political parties has been captured by the Far-Right.

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 4h

“But why does Nietzsche think the night has no stars, nothing but bats and owls and the insane moon?”

- W.B Yeats

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 4h

5/ And the reason for Trump, MAGA, Brexit, Le Pen, the AfD & the rise of the Far-Right is staring us in the face.

“The Centre-Right is collapsing into the Far-Right”

Like it did in the 1930’s.

And we all know how that story turned out.

Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 4h

4/ But instead “good economics means I can now vote for my values without any fear of the economic consequences, and my values are firmly 'right-wing authoritarian'".

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 5h

3/ But when you factor in local conditions, it was “locally rich” white people, those who had higher incomes than others in their zip codes, who were much more likely to support Trump than those who were locally poor. These isn’t “bad economics makes me angry so I vote for the far-right”.

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 5h

2/ The majority of people who voted for the Nazis in 1933 were middle income, poorer than that voted for the Social Democratic Party & the poorest voted for the Communists. Similarly, while It’s true that on a national level, poorer white people were more likely to vote for Trump than richer ones,

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 5h

1/ People want to believe “inflation caused 2024” because it’s far more comforting than facing the reality that being Authoritarian has very little correlation to personal wealth & that these people r spread throughout society.

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 5h

These aren’t Communists who wanted to redistribute wealth but “accidentally” voted for the far-right. They voted for Trump and MAGA because their values and priorities line up, and their values r firmly Far-Right Authoritarian.

Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 5h

“Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie”

- George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (1938)

Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 5h

“Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie”

- George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (1938)

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 6h

Man who wears more makeup than your wife, wants you to believe he’s a warrior.

Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 6h