The Vibe Politics Era
Podcast Is Broken w/ Brittlestar and Lisa B returns next week
Due to an unplanned drinking emergency in the UK, the podcast is taking the Thanksgiving holiday weekend off.
In its place, please enjoy this short essay.
I’ve been in this UK the past few weeks.
I arrived a day or so after some right-wing English nationalists took to the streets armed with St George’s Cross flags and pockets bursting full of cocaine.
Their’s is the usual gripe of the gormless: immigrants bad, white is right.
They are the kind of people you leave the pub for.
If the pub you are enjoying is suddenly infected by these whatever-the-opposite-of-MENSA-is members is, you quickly finish your pint and head to the better pub just up the street.
Of course, you could easily choose to ignore these one-trick-phonies but that may not be in the best interest of say… I don’t know… democracy.
A good friend who is immensely wiser than me and deeply involved in news and current events in the UK said, casually but painfully over a pint, that Nigel Farage will be the next UK Prime Minister.
The same Nigel Farage who championed BREXIT and famously released a ‘Breaking Point’ poster for UKIP showing a line of Syrian refugees at the Croatian-Slovenian border with the caption “the EU has failed us all”.
Many people said it was eerily similar to other famous propaganda from around the second world war… but who knows who was Reich.
All this to say, Nigel Farage is a dick.
However, barring the arrival of the political discourse equivalent of smelling salts for the masses, he will soon be Prime Minister dick.
Why?
How?
Ask most UK people on the street what they think of Nigel Farage and you will most likely receive back a colourful assortment of ‘dick’s and ‘twat’s.
So, again… why? How?
I’ll tell you.
People don’t consume news.
Well, some people do but those people (looking at you, mirror) consume too much sometimes.
However, most people just don’t.
Seriously, ask around.
So, its essential for those of us who gobble up every morsel of news we can to talk politics.
Not dissertation style, but passing comments.
e.g. “Have you heard what [insert name here] said/posted? Such a dick/twat/asshole”
Then move on to Love Is Blind and what was the deal with Billy’s flight-attendant phobia?
Keep it brief.
We’re in the Vibe Politics era.
That’s not good but it does mean that it’s up to you… and oh dear god, me… to help guide the discourse.
So do it casually and in passing but… talk politics and save the world.
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