Anyone else find the homages to the ex Cuban dictator interesting, if appalling?
Fitting maybe that he died in the year of the revolution, one wonders whether he approved.
Still it seems to have given the hard core authoritarian left an outlet for their pent up grief.
This is of course the old fashioned left, the communists and socialists who wouldn't recognise the current rabble as comrades.
When did the supposed left become mere mouthpieces for big business? When did their agenda turn from needs of the common man to merely the sensibilities of the Islington and New York socialites?
At some point the self reinforcing echo chamber of virtue signalling became so loud that which toilet a transgender person uses became a more important topic than the livelihood of the common men whose interests they foolishly thought they represented.
I can't see the mainstream media lasting much longer in the states without massive reform and change of personel. Even the tearful snowflakes will eventually bore of op ed pieces denouncing the new administration or promoting conspiracy theories as to how he won in the first place.
With every day they merely confirm Trump's accusations of bias. Both he and Hillary attended a fund raiser for the church after the second debate and Trump said how nice it was to meet the people behind her trying to get her elected. And there they are in the audience, he said, CNN, the NY times, Washington post....
The question is does the supposed left have anything left? If they continue to brand anyone and anything that seeks to roll back immigration as 'right wing' (rather amusingly even old style socialists such as Le Pen) then can the left ever be unified?
By vilification they have precluded any such notion from sullying their oh so superior agenda.
Rather than building something they are left merely trying to destabilise democracy, whether here with brexit or through endless blubbering and half witted protests across the pond.
So what does the supposed left actually stand for? You might think climate change provides an outlet though tellingly in Marakesh as the results of Trump's victory filtered through the delegates stopped talking about co2 limits and simply went home. Almost as though they knew the game was up.
The term left of course hails from the seating arrangements in the French court where those supporting the King sat to his right and those seeking change to his left.
Rather ironically I suspect the new left will be seeking to roll back the infringements on personal liberty installed by the current supposed left. Whether that be the power of corporations which left unchecked resulted in porous borders for cheap labour and trade agreements negotiated by corporate lawyers in secret. Or the vast spying networks trained to snoop on every aspect of our lives. Maybe with an added sensible and pragmatic view towards the environment, rather than rabid fear mongering where dissenters are labelled, it might be enough to win power.
And depending upon how Trump actually performs I might even argue that it already has.