The fundamental problem for liberals, even left liberals, is that their worldview is dependent on obeying the correct rules in the correct way but we're more and more obviously in a situation where the rules don't matter and the powerful arbitarily change the rules for their own benefit.

If management of the country is 100% about forcefully hammering the square shape of the ruling class’s demands into the public’s round hole, then *of course* it is going to be increasingly weird and nasty. How could it ever be anything else?

This is what right wing politics actually is and has been for decades: looting what remains of the postwar state for the benefit of the incredibly wealthy, via promises to crack down on people reactionaries hate. This isn’t an aberration, it is the actual thing that has been sold since the eighties.

What's striking about capitalist civilization is that it has no real direction. There's no vision for social progress, no commitment to improving human welfare or ecology. All we get is the chaos of profit-oriented production and accumulation as the world burns around us.

The only acceptable Keynesianism to the Labour right is military / weaponised Keynesianism. Impossible to harness state capacity for jobs & infrastructure in eg the NHS, council housing, social care or education. But loadsa cash to funnel to arms manufacturers to build munitions that'll gather dust

4. Almost invariably, those who are most filled with fury and hatred on social media, and behave most vilely to those with whom they disagree, have placed their loyalty to particular people or groups above their loyalty to particular values.

Superb charity shop find.

"The wild revolt of art has remained a short-lived shock, quickly absorbed in the art gallery, within the four walls, in the concert hall, by the market, and adorning the plazas and lobbies of the prospering business establishments".

Let's give this a go then