Writing from prison the neo Marxist Antonio Gramsci argued that the western Liberal elites (capitalists) use ideology rather than violence to maintain a hegemony (control) over the population.
The ideology we follow, and generally it's not a bad one, is Liberal Democracy. Where you have political parties vying for votes. The parties act within the boundaries of the ideology. This would be, social democracy or democratic socialism, not quite socialism, and Labour's normal (but not current) position on the spectrum. On the other side is 'free market' liberalism, traditionally this would be the Liberals, but the Tories have usurped this position since Thatcher.
Since 2016 two things have happened, one has broken the ideology of liberal democracy in Britain and the other has removed the choice that must be present for it to work.
Some factors of liberal democracy are
1. Fair play
2. Rule of law
3. Free and democratic elections
4. Free open and fair society
Cummings along with AIQ used artificial intelligence (ai) to win the Brexit referendum. This alone breaks every rule in the liberal democratic handbook. But it's worse than this. They used ai to trawl Facebook for 'gullible' people, find out exactly what they were saying and then spend £/$millions to buy BILLIONS of targeted adverts made to look like posts. Most of these ads were misleading and some were outright lies.
Just so happened that the 7 million or so mainly gullible men were located in what is known as the red wall constituencies
Then Johnson and Cummings used the residual data and ai again to target these gullible (mainly) men in the red wall and win a Tory landslide. Again they used £/$ millions to buy misleading Facebook ads that looked like posts and many of which stirred up ethnic feelings and many of which were outright lies.
Both the Brexit referendum and the 2019 election need to be declared void and strict regulations regarding the use of ai in elections are put in place.
It doesn't matter where you are on the liberal democratic spectrum, the referendum and the 2019 elections must be declared void to return to the established hegemony. Because it requires (reasonably) honest elections. Otherwise, it's just not cricket!
The second factor that is disturbing the liberal democratic hegemony in Britain is the Labour party!
The leader of the Labour party lied to the members in his election campaign. He pretended to be a social democrat/democratic socialist - solid labour you might say.
Once elected he jumped the traditional labour ship and boarded the free market vessel captained by Mark Littlewood and the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) (which incidentally exists to remove the Labour party from Britain).
So there is at this time no difference between the three main parties.
The liberal elite must alter this to restore the liberal democratic choice. The elite(s) do exercise hegemonic control, they run the show.
They can...
1. Restore Labour to the Keynesian/social democratic - democratic socialist spectrum. Persuade Starmer to return to his 10 labour points position and dump his Mazzucato dreams. Or remove him!
Or alternatively
2. Promote the Green party to the position of the main opposition party. This would make sense in the current climate but the grassroots members of the Green party are not to the taste of the Liberal elite. But they could arrange for cash to pour into the Green party and for it to market itself to those more acceptable to the elite. Initially, possibly Labour party members disillusioned with Starmer and Reeves?
The odd thing is, for Britain to survive as an economy a democratic socialist government might be needed.
A democratic socialist government would benefit the many as well as the few.
So I end with the question, why isn't the Western liberal elite promoting a left wing Labour leader?
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