What does this say about the electorate?
The first thing to say is it is not the electorate’s fault in totality. They are as much victims of who they have interacted with and who have helped formulate how and what they think. Everyone is formed by their political socialisation.
Political socialisation is a particular type of political learning whereby people develop the attitudes, values, beliefs, opinions, and behaviours that are conducive to becoming good citizens in their country. Socialisation is largely a one-way process through which young people gain an understanding of the political world through their interaction with adults and the media.
Therefore, depending upon the adults and the media one interacts with from an early age they will usually play a predominant role in political outlook when adults. These adults then continue the cycle. The most important point though is the phrase ‘good citizens in their country‘. This explains why countries across the world are usually very slow to change. A one way process to recreate what went before, generation after generation.
The UK for example, consists of four countries that have a mostly capitalist economy in which inequality is celebrated. It has a system called ‘liberal democracy’ that apart from the opportunity to vote in elections every so often, we are taught to leave it to others. It is a country that since the 16th century has had an internal battle between two denominations within Christianity, in which Protestantism largely came out on top. A nation that dominated much of the world but has been on the decline for over a century, to the point where it is largely insignificant. A country in which many ideas are promoted by a billionaire corporate media that seeks to reinforce the inequality and division.
It is also geographically predisposed to changeable weather determined largely by the jet stream. It has a celebrated health care system, that goes against the principles of inequality, which leaves it exposed to certain ideologues. An education system that avoids teaching and enabling critical thinking skills that can be applied to the funtionality of the UK and its history. An increasing dependence upon cheaper labour from abroad to maintain its economy. This has enhanced the conflict between certain demographics due to scapegoating and victim blaming which is exacerbated by the corporate media.
Like all nations it seeks through education and the corporate media to instil patriotic values. However, due to the lack of critical thinking capacity, this serves merely to reproduce the ailments as well as the healthy aspects and yet again conflict results.
Therefore, as can be seen one thing lacking is the empowerment of the public to be able to think freely and critically and for it to mean something. Without the latter it merely leads to anger and frustration on many levels.
What does it say about democracy?
Sadly the term democracy is largely lip service. Yes we can vote occasionally but our participation,as explained above, is largely manufactured by others and ideas outside of our control.
The following clearly explains where many of the problems lie and the issues that undermine democracy as a reality.
What we are left with?
The following are examples of the people who decide for us and perpetually abuse democracy and the UK for their own ends. They exist across political parties but by no means the entirety and are more likely to be found amongst the ideolgues that seek to preserve the status quo (summarised above). They will not sincerely listen to criticism, especially from the people they have been elected to serve, and will generally pay lip service until they are relected.
Iain Duncan Smith
An MP since 1992 and former leader of the Conservative Party.
He lied on his application by claiming he had been to a university when he hadn’t. Having been elected nothing was done to remove him or punish him for his lie.
He constantly abuses democracy and the people of the UK by claiming thousands for writing opinion pieces for the billionaire corporate media:
And when confronted with the behaviour in public takes a position that makes both the UK and democracy look shabby at best.
Then there is Dominic Raab. This man, just like Duncan Smith, represents a threat to the UK and its public.
An MP since 2010 and like many, a background in law and how to manipulate it against the public, he is yet again a representation of the purposeful strategy to enhance inequality and punish the victims of it.
Liz Truss, an MP since 2010 and who has switched from the Liberal Democrats to a pro Remain Conservative to a ardent Brexiteer. She is seen as a Conservative high flier. Make of that what you will. Given how easy it is to tear her apart in interviews, yet again we have an example of someone who cares little for the public and democracy and is even less able to show it.
And then there is Boris Johnson whose catalogue of screwing the public (sometimes literally) and democracy goes back decades. Sadly the examples of his anti UK and democracy behaviour are so numerous that to catalogue them separately would take many a life time. But one man who managed to summarise in to approx 5 minutes (pre Covid) is:
As stated above, there are many other politicians who get enough votes but are a malignancy on the breast of the UK. These include politicians from all parties, again as previously stated, including many ‘New Labour’ politicians who are only in it for themselves and to keep the public in their place.
In the Labour Party, for example, these six articles give us a very clear understanding of the untreated sewage at the heart of that institution:
Hopefully for those voters who have uncritically accepted the conditioning they have received and blind voting they have participated in, this will be the start of a crusade to get empowered and get rid of the twisted nihilists that represent us.
If not then we are condemned to repeat the mistakes of history in to the grave of each generation, until the planet draws its last breath.
This probably sums up the people who blindly vote, knowing that who they are voting for gives less of a **** about them than they do dog feaces on the bottom of their shoes.
When the audience has been conditioned to do what they are told by the corporate media and the establishment it could be a tree or a rusty bucket, it makes little difference.
Finally, it is worth pointing out that UK voters are by no means different. The problem is a global one because those who seek to control us are global.
James Finlayson
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