Voting for David Cameron is a clear vote for the destruction of social democracy
The gates of Hell open on Friday after Cameron is elected"The winner's shout, the loser's curse,
Dance before dead England's hearse.
Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born.
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night."
William Blake
You can guess how the entitled upper middle class mind works. You just have to look at their programming schedules. Let's face it. Most of the people in the media don't know the first fuck about China or India. In any case their point of view is not that of any Indian or Chinese you will ever meet.
But on Radio 4 today, there is a discussion of whether Indian Democracy has proved less successful for its people than Chinese autocracy. This is clearly a displacement activity on the eve of the general election in Britain.
In dreams you may dream of flying, but you are actually thinking of fucking. The programme on India and China should be seen in this light. The upper middle classes are not thinking of India and China, they are thinking of the prospect of voting for David Cameron and throwing social democracy into the drink.
A trained semiologist with help of a Freudian psychologist is in an excellent position to disentangle a murky and oneiric bit of establishment programming and reveal what it means. I am no expert, but this is my version:
The question that the upper middle class in Britain is posing to itself does not concern India or China at all. The displacement activity really poses the question:
Do we, the upper middle class, basically English, establishment still want European style social democracy or do we want to follow the US model and screw the middle classes and the poor?
And it seems that the establishment's instincts are selfish and most of them back Cameron and a US style society of social inequality and I'm alright Jack..
Clearly social democracy doesn't cut the mustard for the privileged any more. Certainly it does not do so for Simon Jenkins: pragmatically injudicious and self deceiving as always. He suggests we vote for David Cameron and he does so purely in own class interests without ever admitting that he has class interests. Good trick, if you can pull it off. A little like eating your own face.
Voting for David Cameron is a clear vote against social democracy. The privatisation, through stealth, of education, the health service and every other service currently run directly by the democratically elected government of the United Kingdom will effectively obliterate social democracy in Britain by destroying all counter-weights to the overweening influence of the private sector.
The Big Society Cameron speaks of is a front for the power in society that is not the state and that power is a photograph of the status quo. The power in our society is in the hands of the big companies. It is in the hands of the private sector. The voluntary organisations are inconsequential red herrings. Social entrepreneurs are on the make. The trusts and foundations are on the rise. But what is the role of a trust or a foundation in US society. It is merely to augment the reputation and fortune of the magnates that found them and to hide fortunes from the taxpayer.
It is the same trick that Thatcher played with the share issuing of BT. It is the illusion of perfect competition, it is the illusion of public participation in the market. But the truth about the market is that it is anti-democratic. The market place - Big Society - is the place where the bullies lord it over everyone else. They would like to do so without regulation. They would like to do so without state interference and this is why Cameron speaks of downsizing the state.
Privatising the state and downsizing the state and reducing regulation and reducing the power of Europe to ensure that workers rights are are well defended amounts to the beginning of the destruction of social democracy and a move to the US model of society.
Thatcher started with her attack on the trade unions and the Labour movement, using every force in her control including the police and the secret services to destroy what she called "the enemy within". Cameron will complete her project and among us, some of the brain dead X Factor and Britain's got talent viewers will vote for him because he is young and because he moisturises his face a lot and he dresses better than Brown and he uses his PR skills.
If you vote for Cameron, be thou thrice cursed.
If you vote Tory, you are hereby cursed to endless night.
1) In the name of the people who you will make powerless with your vote for Cameron:
May you experience the powerlessness your miscast vote will cause.
2) In the name of the people who you will impoverish with the vote for Cameron:
may you experience the poverty your miscast vote will cause.
3) In the name of the people who you will kill in foreign wars with a vote for Cameron:
may you experience the deaths your miscast vote will cause.
SOBEIT
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