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Carl Benjamin: Rupert was doing something about the state...

Rupert was doing something about the state of the country: he became a Reform MP. Then Nigel Farage felt upstaged and conducted one of his patented political assassinations against Rupert, but it didn't work. Now Reform talking heads are complaining that Rupert is still continuing to be a politician and that he's not exactly a fan of people who made up false allegations against him to ruin his career and possibly get him jailed--what a shock! The conceit that underpins this latest round of Reform whining about Restore is the belief that Nigel Farage ought to have the power to dictate who may and may not engage in right-wing politics. When Farage feels you are a personal threat, he ought to have the ability to ruin you and drive you out, no matter what the consequences to his victim. It is going to come as a surprise to Reform to learn that we do not actually need their permission and we are not bothered about their complaints about it. We know what to do to fix the country, and we are going to spread this message to the public. The public are, as Matt knows, eager to hear it. Reform's wimpy "well not like that!" attitude is the sole reason they are failing and we have moved past it. We are not apologising to the liberal centre for not being liberals. We are going to keep moving forward because we are right and everyone else is wrong, and Reform know it. Why they don't have the guts to stand on their convictions with moral force is anybody's guess, but it isn't our problem.
Carl Benjamin: Rupert was doing something about the state...
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Carl Benjamin: The problem that the left...

The problem that the left has with the term "socialism" is the ineffablility of its definition. Socialism seems to ultimately mean a centralised, rationalised, and fundamentally unnatural order of society, and this is usually adopted by the left because their end goal demands it, but it could also be adopted by the right for other purposes. This is why fascism and nazism haunt the left-wing mind in a way that normal people just don't think about. They want all the groundwork done that could possibly enable fascism, just for their plan. It's completely believable that someone could hijack such a system for other ends.
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