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Jimmy Snooks's avatar

A very sobering and astute article, Ed. Makes me think the Tories have messed up big time by talking about increasing immigration in the wake of the tax cut announcement. If they had come down on immigration like a ton of bricks before anything else they could have then sneaked in the tax stuff with out much fuss. The polls would be telling a different story now, and the MSM wouldn’t be able to do much about it but froth. Tories got no game. If they had game they would put Kemi Badenoch as PM.

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Great piece Ed. You're talking about something here that is an obsession of mine.

The typical American voter is somewhat center right on social issues (moderate social/cultural conservatism) but a big fan of redistributive programs like Social Security and Medicare... and there are exactly ZERO major political parties who have such a combination as their platform. Our choices are "economic social democracy + encouraging your kids to mutilate their genitals" or "Reaganism/Thatcherism + ban abortion for rape victims." If a party or politician came along that was both moderately culturally conservative and supportive of New Deal-style economics, they would be massively popular, but also a huge threat to the status quo and therefore every elite institution, left and right, would go all hands on deck to destroy them.

This is why I insist that immigrations rates will never come down in the West, no matter how much the public opposes it. Democracy is now just laundered oligarchy. What really matters is differences of opinion between factions of oligarchs, and like Ed said if all factions of oligarchs want something it will definitely happen.

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