re: #95 Targetpractice

UK voters want to know how they’re going to feed their families and roofs over their heads…and the Tories are telling them that the biggest priority is (wait for it) keeping “foreigners” out and attacking out groups (trans folks, Muslims, “woke” supporters, etc).

Sunak and the Tories are through policy trying to loot as much as possible on the way out. They have to create scapegoats not just to conceal their theft, but to create a bridging explanatory structure in which their theft doesn’t create continuing problems that persist regardless of who’s in office. Part of the wager is that their opponents are still trapped within the boundaries of what is possible under capitalism, and every bit of value moved from the commonwealth to private holdings makes implementing pro-social policy harder and harder.

Basically…conservatives and reactionaries “win” if the power is held by existing capital interests, regardless of what label the government is, because privatized power is nonetheless power.

Same applies to everything privatized in the US; your health insurance company governs you as much as your state does.