Funnily enough, asking young people why they hate the Tories is probably not going to actually give you very good answers as to why young people hate the Tories. This is not to say that their answers are likely to be actively deceptive; rather, people are in general really bad at knowing why they have the beliefs they have/make the choices they make. For example, experiments have shown that people are far more likely to buy a product from a supermarket if it's on a middle shelf where it naturally falls into the focus of people's eyelines and is easily reached by their hands; but nobody is ever going to answer the question "why did you choose that brand of bread?" with "because it was on the middle shelf". Isn't it plausible that the extreme age polarisation of UK politics is another middle-shelf phenomenon?
The Tories are 20 years behind what’s been happening in schools, in the media, on social media and the gradual but unrelenting dripping of woke left ideology.
However, what I believe the article misses is the need for schools to teach mandatory economics alongside maths and English - teaching everyone from the earliest age that everything but everything has to be paid for and that there is no such thing as ‘free’, is the first step in taking a real world and pragmatic bite out of woke.
And to add -- and I know that many may not (yet) share these sentiments -- it was the Tory party who locked people in their homes. It was the Tory party who injected the population, including the young, with genetic slurry which is killing them. It was the Tory party is mass murdered the elderly with Midazolam.
On the other hand, we know that Labour party would have locked down harder and been more vicious with the vaxxine rollout.
In the future, the Tory party is going to be seen as more toxic than their vaxxines.
I think this article is correct in summarising how the Tories have presided over the explosion of woke culture. However, it is mistaken in assuming that the Tory Party and the right, or at least the alternative to the "left", are the same thing. No body knows what is left or right anymore in any case.
It is also incorrect, in my opinion, in assuming that votes actually matter.
Funnily enough, asking young people why they hate the Tories is probably not going to actually give you very good answers as to why young people hate the Tories. This is not to say that their answers are likely to be actively deceptive; rather, people are in general really bad at knowing why they have the beliefs they have/make the choices they make. For example, experiments have shown that people are far more likely to buy a product from a supermarket if it's on a middle shelf where it naturally falls into the focus of people's eyelines and is easily reached by their hands; but nobody is ever going to answer the question "why did you choose that brand of bread?" with "because it was on the middle shelf". Isn't it plausible that the extreme age polarisation of UK politics is another middle-shelf phenomenon?
Good read
The Tories are 20 years behind what’s been happening in schools, in the media, on social media and the gradual but unrelenting dripping of woke left ideology.
However, what I believe the article misses is the need for schools to teach mandatory economics alongside maths and English - teaching everyone from the earliest age that everything but everything has to be paid for and that there is no such thing as ‘free’, is the first step in taking a real world and pragmatic bite out of woke.
And to add -- and I know that many may not (yet) share these sentiments -- it was the Tory party who locked people in their homes. It was the Tory party who injected the population, including the young, with genetic slurry which is killing them. It was the Tory party is mass murdered the elderly with Midazolam.
On the other hand, we know that Labour party would have locked down harder and been more vicious with the vaxxine rollout.
In the future, the Tory party is going to be seen as more toxic than their vaxxines.
I think this article is correct in summarising how the Tories have presided over the explosion of woke culture. However, it is mistaken in assuming that the Tory Party and the right, or at least the alternative to the "left", are the same thing. No body knows what is left or right anymore in any case.
It is also incorrect, in my opinion, in assuming that votes actually matter.
Good piece but a diagnostic 12 years too late.
This is really really good, too bad none of it will ever happen.