You are welcome. Thanks for not telling the non-Brit (i.e. me) to go away and stay out of your politics (which would be an understandable reaction). I just sort of figure all neoliberal-hating leftists everywhere are at least potential allies, and see a lot of similarities 'tween current British & European politics and American ones.
While I don't know his every position on all the issues, I'm very strongly supportive of Corbyn for a lot of the same reasons you are (not just his general pro-working class policies but the incredible venom with which his opponents and the media conglomerates have gone after him, which convince me these leftist positions are real & thus the desperate desire to keep him out of power/that plus what I gather is a long track record of consistency on these issues). He's all we've got on the national stage there right now so go Jeremy!
And yes again to that last paragraph. I can't see Brexit having been an easy vote for anyone, as a lot of problems come with either outcome; people I respect who've studied the situation a lot more than me seem to be united in Leave causes more immediate short term problems, otoh, unless the EU fundamentally restructures itself then that project, which I did, once, long ago, ignorantly hold so many hopes for, is now a long (or even medium) term apocalyptic disaster that is already unfolding, so it seemed like pick your poison, and hope you chose the one offering the best hope of ultimate survival for all concerned?
the global elite are strip-mining the world and letting the rest of us burn.
This is a brilliant line. Possibly the best one sentence summation of the current world situation I've seen. Bravo again.
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While I don't know his every position on all the issues, I'm very strongly supportive of Corbyn for a lot of the same reasons you are (not just his general pro-working class policies but the incredible venom with which his opponents and the media conglomerates have gone after him, which convince me these leftist positions are real & thus the desperate desire to keep him out of power/that plus what I gather is a long track record of consistency on these issues). He's all we've got on the national stage there right now so go Jeremy!
And yes again to that last paragraph. I can't see Brexit having been an easy vote for anyone, as a lot of problems come with either outcome; people I respect who've studied the situation a lot more than me seem to be united in Leave causes more immediate short term problems, otoh, unless the EU fundamentally restructures itself then that project, which I did, once, long ago, ignorantly hold so many hopes for, is now a long (or even medium) term apocalyptic disaster that is already unfolding, so it seemed like pick your poison, and hope you chose the one offering the best hope of ultimate survival for all concerned?
the global elite are strip-mining the world and letting the rest of us burn.
This is a brilliant line. Possibly the best one sentence summation of the current world situation I've seen. Bravo again.