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The public services are deteriorating because that's what the people are voting for.

• lm28469 1y ago
  Could that be because 99% of mass medias who make or break politicians are owned by a small elite of hardcore capitalists who have their own interests in mind? Democracy isn't just about showing up every few years and putting a name in a ballot, it's a framework that requires a whole bunch of other things. A lot of EU countries and the US are getting closer and closer to oligarchies
• AJRF 1y ago
  What do you mean by this? Do you mean in the UK, where this company was based. How are UK citizens voting for deteriorating services?
  • justinclift 1y ago
    Did you miss the Brexit thing?
  • deleted 1y ago
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  • ath3nd 1y ago
    > How are UK citizens voting for deteriorating services? - Voting Tory, you get cutting of public health services (e.g NHS) and and Brexit. - Voting Reform, you get the same plus a healthy dose of xenophobia and nationalism (it's thinly veiled-fascism, really). - Voting Labour, you get the same cuts but with a nice label of "progress", so you can feel good about yourself. All the while flat prices are skyrocketing and your doctor's appointment might not ever happen, but there is always money for militarizing police and for sending abroad some bombs to kill Palestinians. If people did want improved public services, they should have voted for somebody like Jeremy Corbyn, who had the decency to distance himself from the absolute disgrace that Labour has become, or at least for the Greens/Socialists. But people did not, in fact, want improved public services, not really. They preferred to either vote for the xenophobe thugs of Reform, the xenophobe elitist Tories, or the pretend-liberal oligarch/capital-loving "Labour", none of who have any incentives to improve public services. You get what you vote for.