How Do We Stop The Idiocracy?

Before you read any further I don't have an answer.

We are supposed to live in a democracy , but when the people who actually vote are effectively controlled by a handful of media companies are we really in a democracy.

I'm continually told by people that Trump is a great businessman, and when I counter this with his bankruptcies , racism, sexual harassment people just switch off.

People tell me that the tories are the Fiscally responsibly party and when I argue that they have destroyed this country's infrastructure by selling it off and pocketing the profits they eith switch off or point to the red top headlines.

When I ask for a positive of Brexit I am told there's too many immigrants in hospitals, it's stop the muslims and pakistanis coming in, you never know it might be really good. On the basis of a pack of advertising lies a 52% vote to takes out of the world's largest free trade bloc (along with all the other benefits that has brought - 80 years of European peace, free movement) and the idiocracy are not bothered or call me a traitor.

I know someone who was on benefits and finding things very hard, yest still voted Tory at the last election because The Sun said so. This is the idiocracy.

The only hope is to educate people to consider what they are doing, wbut when we have people like Michael Gove saying we don't experts and people then quoting him and an example we know why we are where we are.

It's funny, when at work and there is a major IT problem they don't go to the cleaners or the doorman to sort it out, they always come to me, yet for the running of the country put their trust in idiots like Bojo , the poundshop Trump who will have us at war with Iran.

I do wish the idiocracy will one day become a thinking democracy.

I've included the Carole Cadwalladr talk on how Facebook facilitated the Brexit vote.

The World Just Became A Reality TV Show

Donald Trump is in The Whitehouse. We shouldn't be too surprised . Trump was on the Apprentice. If Simon Cowell stood for Prime Minister in the UK he'd win by a landslide, because let's face , most of the electorate are at a level where they will do what their rag of choice (The Sun,The Mail or Express in the UK, Fox News and The National Enquirer in the USA) tells them.

Many of his supporters laud him as a "businessman" ignoring his continuous failures and being bailed out (see here)

Making inappropriate sexual comments about girls as young as ten (see here)

Misogyny and Sexual Harassment of Women (see here)

Racist Harassment and incidents (See here) the Brexit vote endorsed the same in the UK

Mocking the disabled (See here)

Any one of these incidents would get me sacked but the electorate seem to view these as a benefit.

People say that it doesn't stop him doing the job, and all politicians are the same.

He claims he is going to create jobs when his own companies use non USA labour. (see here)

So being on the Apprentice qualifies you for US President (unless you are non white or a woman)

I've included PJ O'Rourke on Trump vs Clinton, he is Right Wing and voted Democrat.

Today is not a good day.

I'm Finding It Difficult

A lot of people who I'd consider my friends , who I worked with, are singing the praises of  Donald Trump as a straight talker and a business man. When I say but what about the sexual assaults , the lurid sexual comments towards children, the denigration of disabled people, the racism, the misogyny, the bankruptcies , the fraud, they retort with "It doesn't stop him from doing a good job".

By the same token we could but Jimmy Saville and Gary Glitter in charge of a kindergarten class and Peter Sutcliffe in charge of a women's refuge.

Everyone mentioned in this post is vile and despicable, and Nigel  Farage belongs there for his racism, misogyny and idiocy.

If you have a good word for any of these just unfriend me on Facebook.

Pop Will Eat Itself are more appropriate by the second.
 

2016 Year of The Brump

You can tell that my heart's not really in this blog because I hate complaining and whining but feel that I have to do this one about stuff that annoys the hell out of me.

Brump is my word for the car crash that is Brexit and Donald Trump.

The two big intertwined snakes of Brexit and Donald Trump's Victory have left me open to accusations that I don't know what democracy is and I should shut the f**k up and accept the "will of the people".

My counter argument is that the people who voted were blatantly lied to. When I point this out I'm told that people "should have known" that they were lies.  Well if you go and buy a Ferrari that is advertised as having a top speed of 300 mph, it gets delivered , and it wont top 30 mph because it only has a 500cc engine , what would you do? Should you have known?

Brexit promised immigration control, money for the NHS , more control and none of those are going to happen and in fact our government are selling off everything to foreign governments while still plunging the county into further debt. It's funny how austerity only hits the poor.

Trump promised to take on big business , bring manufacturing jobs back to the USA, build a wall, to keep out Mexicans but the electorate were wary that Hilary Clinton would just get into bed with bug business and the rich would get richer and the poor will get poorer.

I remember Margaret Thatcher once saying she wanted a "return to Victorian values" and for years I thought she meant no sex, no nudity, no swearing, but then I realise that what she really meant was that she wanted a slave underclass who didn't need paying because they would just kow-tow to their betters. That's what the Tory "Austerity" program is aimed at.

These two events (Brexit / Trump) have validated racist and homophobic opinions resulting in people being attacked and killed, the fall out from these events have proved that they are wrong.

And back to democracy. A vote should be based on truths and not the opinions of the best con men. Here's Wikipedia's definition.

Check out Adam Curtis' Hypernormalisation here which gives a good insight into why we are in this situation

OK That's it out of my system but we are in a bad place and I hope that the good and sensible ones among us can mobilize and do something about it.

Have a great day my friends.

Musically we'll go with Dick Gaughan's "World Turned Upside Down" and provide some amusing political insights from PJ O'Rourke.