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Originally Posted by Keeping It Gimple
imagine a populace so deferent, so utterly dedicated to placid contentment, so thrilled at the prospect of seeming more stuffy and mediocre than the next person, with none of that satanic american individualism and little anti government paranoia, then take a right wing economic narrative that is false but goes totally and utterly unquestioned even by the opposition, and add a propaganda campaign taking place in all major media, and you have a recipe for scared voters just wanting respite from the fear of missing rent payments, stupidly thinking that voting conservative is gonna make them richer
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Completely agree in terms of the Tories, but the successes of UKIP and the SNP means a large percentage of the population are motivated by more than just financial prosperity. Labour lost the economic vote to the Tories but they also seem to have lost the cultural one to nationalists.