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Cameron is essentially shrugging his shoulders and saying that a free society is unsustainable. This is quite unfortunate for our friends in the UK. Even more
by MrZongle2 11y ago
Cameron is essentially shrugging his shoulders and saying that a free society is unsustainable.
This is quite unfortunate for our friends in the UK. Even more unfortunate for us here in the United States is that there are plenty of halfwit authoritarians just like him to be found in both of our major political parties.
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoUnfortunately, people will keep voting for them, because they can't be having with those dirty hippie leftists. Don't they know the holy words of Saint Thatcher? "There Is No Alternative." But hey, at least they're not those dirty fascists in the UKIP and BNP! I mean, sure, they work to bring the xenophobic policies of those two parties into the mainstream, without even the BNP's egalitarian approach to domestic economics, but that's totally a serious distinction between neoliberalized conservatives and fascists!
- yarrel 11y agoNew Labour in the UK don't have a better record on technological civil liberties. This is part of the problem - we cannot signal our rejection of these measures electorally.
- eli_gottlieb 11y ago> New Labour in the UK don't have a better record on technological civil liberties. That was, in fact, exactly my point. Neoliberal "social democratic" and neoliberal "conservative" parties basically just pass the governance ball back-and-forth in accordance with whose base will be more or less alienated by what the elite's Very Serious People decree will be passed this time.
- angrybits 11y agoIt's almost like we need a party that advocates for personal liberty above all else.