This has all been done before in the UK and it has very little impact on voting behavior. In 2010 the UK government started a program of austerity and underfunding across the public service - including health. That government was able to win 2 more ...
In a democracy you can easily get away with causing hardship and deprivation to a minority - whether that's the disabled, beneficiaries, nursing graduates, nature conservationists or Cancer patients. You might get a bit of bad PR when you do this but the ...
The brilliant Gary Stevenson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dY7eBjqsA8
At any given point in time a minority of the voting public is directly impacted by declining access to properly funded health care. If you look at what has been done to the NHS in the UK with the full endorsement of the voting public then you see how it ...
I caution the optimism that a nasty, brutish and unkind government can not last more than a term. In a democracy, economically marginalizing minorities can be a very electorally successful strategy. It feeds a powerful narrative of justified cruelty ...
And yet. When the next election comes around . . . If you want a template of what is happening look to the UK. Despite a decade of horrific austerity UK voters have returned the Conservatives to power over and over. Performative cruelty is an exceptionally...
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