Source: spiked
by Tom Slater
“The narrative that is constantly being spun at the moment is that, as of about 10 years ago, politics was … perfect. It was consensual. It was moderate. Political parties might have disagreed around the edges, but they could come together under some core assumptions – and in their shared deference to technocratic expertise. Then the populists showed up and supposedly ruined everything. It’s certainly true that, prior to 2016, political parties only ever seemed to be dancing on the head of a pin, and often ostentatiously dismissed ‘ideology.’ But what has become abundantly clear is that that supposed consensus, that supposedly moderate settlement, was serving ordinary people terribly, and in some aspects was batshit crazy.” (10/21/24)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/10/21/why-we-need-more-polarisation/