Blog 9 - Tackle Nationalism With Classism

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I will continue the ‘We need more of a say’ blogs, probably starting with how to get our views from these screens into the actual decision-making process of politics through our elected representatives.

But, to keep topical, I’m picking up on what I said in Blog 7 - ‘Right now, there’s people, not interested in tackling those who run the country, the business class, and the big issues that come from their dominance, who are very agitated about a relatively small issue, migration and asylum.’ And linking it to the central issue - how we talk to each other as voters, and get people to base their political views on the system.

So how do we respond, on social media and in person, to those who treat immigration and asylum seekers as the big issue, and, because of that, vote for conservative parties? (That includes, in the UK, Reform.)

We should argue that there are 101 bigger issues affecting our well-being and they mostly involve how the ‘we’ and ‘us’, the ‘host’ population, behave towards each other, especially how the wealthy and the business class behave towards the ordinary majority. Even naming the business class is an important step. They are hidden from scrutiny by the apparently unassailable conservative argument about everybody having the ‘freedom’ to start and run a business. That is thoroughly covered in 'The Essential Us, Politics and The System’ at https://www.uspoliticsandthesystem.org/_files/ugd/e8d212_7a38c84e326f41508a42fc351d94c66f.pdf

But, going back to immigration, it's useful to see, and say, how immigrants create jobs. It’s because they too have needs for all the usual things and create demand that provides work for everybody. It’s like importing an overseas market, with no transport costs to price you out of the market.

But instead of debating migrants too much, ask also ‘what do the conservatives and people who go on about ‘whites’ being neglected have in mind for how they would relate to and treat each other if there weren’t these minorities? What do the likes of Farage and Trump, and ordinary nationalist activists, plan to do about those 101 issues? About health services, housing, and the rest? And the business class’s minority power over the rest?’

This issue is covered thoroughly in ‘Nationalism and Classism', a fifteen-minute read, at https://www.uspoliticsandthesystem.org/_files/ugd/e8d212_5af29c0781464baca2f3440ed48aa47d.pdf

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