Witzend
I don’t think many people see it as a possession of the right wing, vegansrock - but do you mean the extreme right wing or anyone who isn’t very firmly left?
I would say it’s only the substantial minority of English people (NB I didn’t say British) often of the so-called liberal intelligentsia type, who for decades now have despised their own country - often with a lot of breast-beating over empire, never mind that other countries had empires, too - and seize every possible opportunity to knock it.
Somewhere I’ve got a little book with a (comic) verse whose first line goes, ‘Everyone hates the English, including the English’,
I should maybe add that as someone extremely widely travelled and who’s lived in other countries, I’ve never once found or sensed that ‘everyone’ hates us, much as that English minority would like to think so.
Where is the proof that those who disagree with you - whom you choose to disparage as "the so-called liberal intelligentsia type," despise their own country?
None whatsoever. I, for one, do not want to see this "very un-British Coup" continue. We live in a country that is going the same way as, for example, Turkey did under Erdogan who took advantage of the opportunities sent him to establish an elective dictatorship. I do not want that for my country. If you do, so be it but that does not mean either of us despises our own country.
In Turkey, this meant that elections and the real distribution of power could be pre-determined by control of the media, judiciary, civil service, security services and, if people still stubbornly voted against the government, by outright electoral fraud. We have seen the same things happening here.
The demographics of people supporting these elected dictators doesn't change and, of course, they know who they need to get on-side. The same happens time and time again. The well-heeled back a figure, who can attract enough votes from the lower and middle classes, is put in place and slowly many of the established parties slowly fall into line.
The strength of the Johnson coup is that so many cannot believe that, in our country, this could be happening. The fact that Brexit was always a path to power for the hard-right was difficult to accept and many stood back from fighting that battle; some still do not see it for what it was.
We cannot look to the past to fight this phenomenon - we must look to a brighter future produced by parties that do not want to take us down the dictatorship road. But never let it be said that we "didn't know". The signals are all around us.
Sources include:
Who Voted for Hitler? | The Nation
Boris Johnson's coup is eerily reminiscent of Erdogan's behaviour in Turkey | The Independent
. That too would be an opinion.