Good piece, worth reading, and if you don’t have time, the first paragraph is the text in this post, and it suffices as well.

HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF THIS GUY BEFORE, THIS IS TRULY INCREDIBLE

i think we've all had that right?

& i think that's why (well, one reason why) starmer isn't getting a pass for this - he's coming across like that idiot boss (as far as i can tell, he *was* that idiot boss)

& when that all invariably blows up, the higher-up will round on you

"why on earth did you do that?"

yes they told you to do that big stupid thing, but not like **that**

so you do it

now, because it is a stupid thing, the steps towards it will also likely be stupid - maybe there are incidental harms, maybe doing it will necessarily involve ignoring ignoring usual process or guidelines

maybe you ask a few people for guidance - they awkwardly shrug; it's what so & so says they want

how many of you have had this situation at work -

a higher-up wants something stupid. when you try to explain what would be involved in doing that, they get frustrated & tell you to 'just get it done'

& that often those liberal/left parties are slowly hacking apart with privatisation & austerity in systems where they could expand that if they wanted to

as dems fight decade after decade to get more people coverage agains implacable opposition & in a system that's nightmarishly hard to reform

this belief is actually surprisingly inelastic wrt who the president is

they also believe the president sets the price of eggs & is keeping it high to spite them personally

one thing i'm seeing is that american liberals pretty easily grasp that the logic of 'vote blue no matter who' just doesn't apply to uk labour

but uk progressives *really* struggle to get that the reasons they've turned on labour don't apply to the us dems

dems created an expanded 'covid' welfare state under trump, republicans strangled it under biden

swing voters credited trump & blamed biden for that respectively

there's a moral here, of a sort

they were like this like every single day for years

him & samoyed had a kinda insane chemistry

"Whereas prior generations of liberals may have talked of democratic institutions as an end in themselves, resistance liberals see them as tools to preserve a free society. If they are no longer serving that goal, they can and should be changed."

also, labour are a lot worse than the dems, i think brits can default to seeing them as policy equivalent & they absolutely aren't

sure, but these are different things - you don't have an obligation to support labour no matter what. you kinda do with the dems

the us spent the gdp of itally on covid relief, the uk is like "does anyone really *need* a 3rd child?"

first time for me not voting labour - despite everything i've said against the party that's quite jarring - i'm anticipating having to spend a few minutes in the booth to make myself do it

i'm in scotland- my best anti-fascsist vote is straightforwardly the snp

although i think i'll do scot greens for the local/ proportional ones as the snp have kinda caved on trans rights & the greens (of which sctoland has its own green party, because reasons) have been better

resistance liberalism, which did not exist either as a phrase or a movement prior to trump's election, caused trump's election

& it is actually kinda important to appreciate the distinction:

these are two very different models for how a centre-left party can respond to fascism & we need to back one over the other

i'm sorry, i'm sorry, you're saying this under fptp is unhinged

hit. past tense

in the last by election they successfully made the case they were best placed to beat reform in a seat with a lab 34% majority two years before & won easily

maybe a little anecdotal, but i've seen this a few times

heck, there's several . . . uh, robust debates happening in my mentions right now that are uk lefties vs us libs about us politics, & it's really clear that the brits are operating on a labour = dems model

one thing i'm seeing is that american liberals pretty easily grasp that the logic of 'vote blue no matter who' just doesn't apply to uk labour

but uk progressives *really* struggle to get that the reasons they've turned on labour don't apply to the us dems