How to spot a fake revolution
‘For all Russell Brand’s platitudes about rejecting the presiding establishment, he ends up settling for one of the two major parties. Ed Miliband’s Labour, apparently because they are slightly less horrible than the Tories.
This is a consistent pattern with fake revolutions. There is an underlying dissatisfaction amongst the young, and in racial and cultural minorities that cannot be turned around through traditional politicking. So what the powers that be do is co-opt this grumbling. If they’re smart they can make the same old rubbish sound like a spontaneous, grass-roots uprising. In the end, the naive members of this movement vote for whom they see as the less-bad candidate.’
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