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I am certain that the elections we have seen in the last 15+ years, quite possibly going back to the London Mayoral elections in 2008, and including the 'Brexit' referendum, were manipulated by means of illegal anti-social media data, and influencing people through individually-targeted misinformation. The rise of far-right parties in Europe I believe is mainly due to subversion by Putin's machine, exploiting the instability caused by the rampant injustice that more than 40 years of appallingly bad government have created. This is not only the case in Britain, of course.
Oliver Schick
I just keep thinking back to a conversation with a friend, who unfortunately is a Tory, about 5 years back. Saying to him, 'You cunts have won - you have the media sewn up, the public convinced you're the natural party of government, Brexit has shifted the Overton window miles to the right, you're gerrymandering to shore it all up. You are bulletproof and have no natural predators.' I genuinely thought it was impossible we'd see a change in government in a generation or more, and don't even now think my logic was flawed.
The good thing was that they believed it too. They thought they could get away with their turbo-charged mix of incompetence, complacency, fuckwittery, bigotry and utter blatant contempt for anyone who isn't them in perpetuum. That they've blown it all so completely and so quickly is actually breathtaking.