Cabaret of Fear

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Kind of following on from last night's post - how can you not? - two things are stand-outs for today: one is the revelation that power retailers, in close consort with magistrates, are targeting the poorest in chasing their revenue, in obtaining special warrants to force consumers onto prepayment meters: guaranteeing that they will simply go cold and be unable to cook or even wash properly in what is shaking up to be a very cold winter. Secondly, we have the prevailing establishment attitude that strikers are acting unfairly in their attempts to achieve fair pay and conditions, because they will affect ordinary peoples' Christmas plans. Ordinary people. Christmas. Who on earth does the establishment believe that strikers are? Some alien species from the Planet Zog? Imports covertly smuggled in from that dangerously subversive entity, the EU? Or 'economic' migrants from countries whose collapsed economies we have colluded in effecting over the last couple of decades?

People are people, simply that. The discriminating factors are money and opportunity. Not God, or God-given class; money: that stupidly simple artifice that, to quote the song in Cabaret, '...makes the world go round.' The problem is, that money and its flow-paths are not free, elastic or even vaguely organic - as much as economists [ha!] and neoliberal thinkers would have you believe - it's distribution and effects are carefully hedged and controlled by the privileged few who owned control of it all in the first place. To quote that arch-libertarian Boris Johnson: "...fuck business!..." This from the self-styled party of business: their loyalties - to money and its blind acquisition - pinned firmly to their sleeves: just give us the dosh and piss off...

The tipping point we are fast approaching, when civil disobedience, rioting and violence - the logical and perfectly understandable concomitant of societal desperation - will inevitably spill onto our streets, will be bloody, nasty, and ultimately counter-productive, as the machinery of state and media control kick in and brand the participants wilful criminals. This scenario has been played out, generation after generation: the Peterloo massacre being one of the most heinous chapters in our socio-political history: how much longer can the establishment be allowed to hold the reins of power through their manipulation of reality and history itself? The answer lies in the ballot box: just vote these dangerous clowns out of office. Please. Weimar Germany should give us a fairly hefty clue as to what else could possibly happen should we continue to ignore the portents so plainly evident to us.

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