Moralism will go nowhere in politics and is the force behind cancel culture described here. Sadly, good people are being thrown overboard in all this. Not one of their pea-shooting peanut-gallery critical pundits have envisioned anything like the economic model ushered in by Summers and the creative industries-oriented London vision of Mandelson. They've had decades to kvetch and the only product is Trumpian-style protectionism which is a global joke, and various forms of Northern nostalgia out of touch with reality. As unsustainable as it was, at least the politics of the 1990s and 2000s did lead to growth and a decline of zero-sum race and otherwise oriented nonsense tribalism and "fixed pie" mentality. The populists and transcendental miserabilists who base politics on moralism and victim focus, be for the white working class or other groups, have produced nothing of value and can only destroy. See the Liberation Day tariff board, the tombstone of American hegemony.
We are not all like this in the Labour Party. Many people speak out and pay for it. It is part of why working class people find our culture so stifling. Our office politics are second nature for some people who were raised to know how to navigate them. Those same people weaponise “politics as a moral vision” to advance their careers while maintaining they are motivated by decency and principle. But you can’t put lipstick on a pig.
I would encourage you to consider being part of Mainstream. We want to get the party back to what it was before it became London and middle class centred with marxist overtones, a movement of mainly working class people diverse in nature but embedded in the culture of those who are working class.
Moralism will go nowhere in politics and is the force behind cancel culture described here. Sadly, good people are being thrown overboard in all this. Not one of their pea-shooting peanut-gallery critical pundits have envisioned anything like the economic model ushered in by Summers and the creative industries-oriented London vision of Mandelson. They've had decades to kvetch and the only product is Trumpian-style protectionism which is a global joke, and various forms of Northern nostalgia out of touch with reality. As unsustainable as it was, at least the politics of the 1990s and 2000s did lead to growth and a decline of zero-sum race and otherwise oriented nonsense tribalism and "fixed pie" mentality. The populists and transcendental miserabilists who base politics on moralism and victim focus, be for the white working class or other groups, have produced nothing of value and can only destroy. See the Liberation Day tariff board, the tombstone of American hegemony.
We are not all like this in the Labour Party. Many people speak out and pay for it. It is part of why working class people find our culture so stifling. Our office politics are second nature for some people who were raised to know how to navigate them. Those same people weaponise “politics as a moral vision” to advance their careers while maintaining they are motivated by decency and principle. But you can’t put lipstick on a pig.
I would encourage you to consider being part of Mainstream. We want to get the party back to what it was before it became London and middle class centred with marxist overtones, a movement of mainly working class people diverse in nature but embedded in the culture of those who are working class.