From Charlotte Gore:
See, Progressivism is about selling fantastic dreams - work less, earn more, play more, become more attractive, be more admired by your peers, end hunger, end poverty, create world peace, abolish cancer, save the whales, save the planet all by simply voting once every few years and telling people, hey, I voted for cool. Musicians, actors, comedians… all manner of people who depend on being ‘in’ and ‘hip’ to make a living align themselves with progressive politics. Cos it’s cool. It’s one giant circle-jerk of ‘cool’.
That is, of course, only when the Progressive movement is led by someone cool superstar politicians – Clinton, Blair, Obama – then the circle-jerk actually works.
You sense a 'but' coming ...
However when the leader is someone lacking in cool – Gore (the less charismatic and distinctly more bonkers Gore), Kerry or Gordon Brown – then there is no circle of cool, the Progressive Party languishes in failure and defeat.
Very true, and it is why some of us are so pleased about the quality of candidates for the Labour leadership.
UPDATE: The post in question seems to have unaccountably disappeared. Link amended.
UPDATE 2: Link restored.
It's back. Needed a few tweaks to meet the necessary standard required for not making me feel ashamed. :)
ReplyDeleteBetter go back and read the 'better' version, then! Thanks for visiting and letting me know.
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