Brexit : Triggering as a tactic of film
makers, bullies and political power establishments.
In simple terms what I am exploring here is the
media
campaign tactic system that is a bit like a shit stirrer in an office whispering into
different peoples ears that 'that person thinks you're a bit of a shit' in order to
start an argument, to escalate a fight, for either pleasure or profit.
Either way, it’s all about
power. The power to trigger others without their understanding it, or the use of the tactic to exercise and leverage power.
The Power Establishment are experts at that and we
have to become expert at spotting it and deconstructing it and not getting
caught up in it.
That also means we need to get to know ourselves a little
better.
1. We must understand that the intent behind the xenophobic materials published by UKIP
management, and the Murdoch press and other right wing media was twofold :
a) To give the impression
that there are a lot more racists around than there actually are, and that they
have a greater power than they really do. To inflate.
b) It
was also designed to mask the expected protest vote which had nothing to do
with these traits. They needed to garner that vote and at the same time neutralise it's meaning.
The protest vote was a rejection of all Governments of the past 40 years or so, a rejection by working class low income folk whose voice Westminster and the intelligentsia
sneers at - poverty porn was no accident and it was always propaganda, rather than documentary.
The media deliberately portrayed that
protest to look like a significant percentage of Leavers were 'racists and xenophobes' whereas they were simply saying 'No!' to what they perceived as the Establishment's self assurance - and of
course, the 'progressives' who still consume Mefia News fell for this ruse, and now the grass roots are calling each other names
based on a media set-up and it is getting personal, which raises the intensity.
Lateral Violence...
2. We must listen to each other, we must listen to real people's real concerns, and try to understand what difficulties they are faced
with, try to see how they feel for their children's futures.
We must connect to that, we must ignore the
set-up, see past the bipolarity and adversarial dynamics and acknowledge the abuse of Government that afflicts us all, and be aware of the lack of their voice in
political mainstream discourse. If people who are being bullied feel heard, then they too can listen.
Then we can begin to deconstruct the opinion from the evidence. As a sharing, a learning, a building of solidarity.
3. We must understand fame and celebrity. Media can report 20 incidents and make it look like a massive surge. That is
part of the tactical approach of media serving power. The violence of a few
nasty street thugs, who are a tiny minority in this country can be made to look
much greater than it is. The media are doing this, on all 'sides' to inflame
the situation. This divides us further.
How Bullying works….
“Bullying is a form of scapegoating and
projection." We know that scapegoating is a hostile
socio-psychological discrediting operation in which people move blame and
responsibility away from themselves and towards a target person or group.
It is also a practice were angry feelings and inappropriate accusation are
placed on others. Quite understandably, the target feels persecuted and
receives misplaced vilification, blame and criticism; and the victim is likely
to suffer rejection from those who the perpetrator seeks to influence and again,
an increasing feeling of isolation.
We live in a society where bullying has become increasingly acceptable, and
certainly, as form of doing politics.”
I suggest you follow the link and read
this
very accurate and informative blog on How Bullying Works in Politics, written by Kitty Jones. It covers the tactics of the bully in quick and accessible detail, and yet lays out the complexity of this subject.
Bearing in mind that in British Schools, 45% of children report being bullied
and no Government program has been successful at reducing that number. Which
does not surprise me as coercive education is institutional bullying.
Please examine your reactions and emotions, and try to see where you have been
triggered, and please stop calling all ‘leavers’ xenophobes and all ’remainers’
selfish middle class landlord traitors!
We can see patterns across society, yet it is really inaccurate to apply those
patterns to every individual, and you have to talk to individuals, in some
depth, to see where they are coming from. Do not let the media project nasty
shit onto millions of people you do not know.
Manipulation by emotional theatre.
The recent videos of
Ian Duncan
Smith and
Anna Eagle
crying are theatre.
These are supposedly mature adults, both of whom have supported policies of
extreme cruelty (ATOS and Iraq) based on false assumptions and wildly off beam
justifications, with horrific outcomes for real people, which they both ignore
and dismiss as irrelevant, and who are entrusted with the duty of care inherent
in administering the utilisation of our shared contributions, the taxes we all
pay into the Excehquer.
Outcomes indicate intention, especially if the pattern of action and outcome is
repeated.
The poverty in Britain
is a direct result of Government Policies, whoever has been in Government,
whoever has been in opposition.
They want poverty to happen. They want war to happen. Only it doesn’t ‘happen’.
The presence and persistence of poverty is induced.
Man made. Power made. Power mad.
They used my taxes to cause all this harm.
They used your taxes to cause all this harm.
They used our taxes to cause all this harm, and more.
So much more.
Millions of British children living in relative poverty.
Millions of parents living in poverty.
Food banks, investment banks. Both growing.
Buy-to-let promoted by Government, driving rents up, driving low income
families and individuals, entire communities out.
There's something deeply, profoundly wrong with that.
And those tears. Really?
They just don’t care. They
The Brexit vote was an expression of that knowledge. They just don’t care.
They will try to manipulate us any way they can think of.
They do not care about the low income folk, in England,
Wales, Scotland, Northern
Ireland, Iraq,
Afghanistan, Syria, Libya,
Palestine, Africa,
South East Asia, America.
Working class people, all of us. We will never be landlords. We don’t want to
be landlords.
They are institutionalised bullies.
"Having narrowly won the general election, the Tories are now
trying to rig the system to keep themselves in power, and weaken opposition
both inside and outside parliament.
Late last year they drove through a new voter registration
scheme that will slash the number of young and inner-city voters. And later
this Parliament they will cut the number of parliamentary seats. The
Conservatives are gerrymandering the electoral system to benefit themselves.
By directly attacking Labour’s funding through their trade
union bill and by cutting public Short money support for opposition parties’
research, they are deliberately setting out to constrain democratic
accountability.
Add to that their “gagging law”, which prevents charities,
unions and thinktanks from taking part in political debate near election time.
Their threats to use the BBC’s charter renewal to hack away
at its independence;
Their packing of the House of Lords with Tory peers; their
moves to restrict the powers of local councils, it all adds up to a serious
attack on democratic rights and freedoms
.
Theirs is the party funded by hedge funds backed by a press
owned by multi-millionaire or even billionaire tax avoiders.
Their concept of fairness is of a very different order to
ours. Fairness for only a few is not fairness, but privilege."
So says Jeremy Corbyn, so says the evidence. They do not care.
All this for power, as an end in and of itself.
The Power Establishment.
They are all deeply, profoundly opposed to any threat to their dominance of the
British people and economy. It’s personal for them.
Corbyn
is not. Quite the opposite.
Their concerns are with Power over the people; not with the people.
Corbyn and those who genuinely support him are not willing to accept that
Government is power over the people. We pay their wages.
The moves against Jeremy Corbyn and the movement which he is re-presenting are
all about Power, and those who oppose him seek power as an end in and of itself,
through which they project their one prejudices. We pay the price.
Gaslighting
is another tactic of the bully system. It is designed to
undermine the targets
sense of self, and leave the target open to suggestion or to alter the targets
perception to suit the bully. It can be difficult to
identify.
They are very good at gaslighting.
Just so you know.
NeoLiberalism.
It is the ideology
and the lack of
natural empathy towards those they rule over, thopse they feel threatened by.
That latter
dynamic created the
ideology.
We need to diagnose correctly the situation.
Our situation.
Fast!
Kindest regards
Corneilius
"Do what you love, it's Your Gift to Universe"
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