You've got to wonder about a system which allows a chorus of people saying it would be terrible to become involved in a war in the middle east to do a complete 180. Why aren't their own words being quoted (by congress, by news) back to them?
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Makes you wonder what class owns >50% of congress and the news?
Do you really think that would make any difference? Conservatism is about staying with the group. Despite the name, consistency has nothing to do with it. If the group leaders start saying something contradictory it just becomes the new group stance. What came before, even just yesterday, is entirely irrelevant. Those who critically evaluate individual ideas or policies are not conservatives.
This casts all people who vote for conservative parties as sheep who will blindly agree with whatever their leader says on a given day. For some that's true, but most people recognise that unexplained U-turns are a sign of bullshit.
An amnesiac media laser-focused on the 24h news cycle lets the cult develop by not reminding people of what they believed the day before yesterday. Most people don't like being confronted with this even if they can explain it away, and more focus on it would be an improvement.
What you're saying about these people should be true, but there's nothing in my experience of life in the last decade that makes me think that is more than wishful thinking.
This is still a show. He's still a weak old man. People kiss his ass for a proverbial toffee from his candy dish. He's got the same energy as the Wizard of Oz; fake as fuck.
Wobble loudly and carry a grudge - the weak, incompetent, confused orange felon.
He doesn't know the difference between a strong man and a strongman.
He is not strong. It is all a show to him.
“Perilous” is doing so much work here.
The Guardian, like all the corporate news sewers, has no fucking idea what to do now.