Please avert your eyes if politics offend you. I rarely do this but issues such as immigration and tolerance are dear to my heart and my writing.
In the 1930s Germany slipped into fascism and nationalism – I feel something similar is happening to us now in first steps into that direction.
We all need to speak up to voice our dissent and fight these politics of hate
I can’t remember a worse day in British politics than October 4th, 2016. Today ranked far below even last year’s general election, when 49 of my party’s MPs were defeated, and June 23rd, a date I thought had established itself as comfortably the worst domestic political event of my lifetime.
I have spent the day in a state of bewilderment, anger, disgust and despair at the way the Conservative government is dragging the country into a disgraceful mire. They claim to base this on a single vote, a vote to leave the European Union, that was decided on a knife-edge – a mere 1.3 million votes out of 33 million. On the basis of this vote, they claim to understand what “the public” wants, and even what it thinks. Just look at tomorrow’s Daily Mail front page, if you can:
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That was a fine read you shared there.
Thanks Mike 🙂
Couldn’t agree more.
Thanks. I love to hear that 🙂
Ohhhh, we have to speak up. It’s rising everywhere again. All of the hateful ‘isms’ of the past are making a strong comeback here as well.
Thanks Rita 🙂
It’s heavy on my heart, Christoph. It feels as though we’re sliding backwards and trampling on the souls of all the brave men and women who fought peacefully to seek equality.
My sentiments exactly. I thought we had evolved back from this and now we’re thrown back to the middle ages. It makes me so sad.
Me too. It’s heartbreaking to me that we are once again becoming a species motivated and manipulated by the fear-mongers who seek to rule.
We are so much better than this. So much beauty, skill and opportunity at our disposal and yet people choose hate over understanding.
Keep believing, my friend. Believing there are more of us that love humanity than there are those to hate.
Be well.
Thanks for sharing, Christoph. The US is facing many of the same challenges, but I think we are going to pull off a vote for sanity, compassion, and reason. Our election process is incredibly long which gives plenty of time for the truth to filter out and up. I hope and believe that the UK will come out of this in a good place, but unfortunately, not without enduring some sadness and pain.
I hope it will all come out alright but that is what people thought 80 years ago, because nobody “expects the Spanish inquisition”. Even if the worst is averted, the fact that there are so many supporters of this trend is worrying.
Thanks for your kind and encouraging words!
Yes, in the US it’s the same. I’m less disturbed by a single Trump than I am by the millions who support him. It’s frightening and disheartening.
Such a horrible and sad trend which we are also seeing in the USA; by a potential President. Selecting groups and shame-blaming is a very dangerous way to lead.
Such a shame.
A shame indeed. 😦
It is a disgrace, obviously history is not a good enough teacher. Thank you Christopher for your engagement.
Thanks Silke 🙂
I wonder if there is even any true conviction involved..or if it is all a political game to pander to the on-paper majority of voters. Either way, it is a dangerous direction .
I am so very sad for the state of the world and the wrong powers that be at the helm of so many lives. ❤
I am so very sad for the state of the world and the wrong powers that be at the helm of so many lives.❤