Excellent point and a very dangerous road we are travelling down.I don't see the new media as left wing either. They promote an extreme form of identity politics, people are encouraged to see themselves as women, rural dwellers, travellers, migrants, muslims, refugees, etc. rather than see themselves as citizens.
That's not right wing, that's just bigoted.Irish politics is unusual in the world that we have no right wing element. Any politician who has tried it (Noel O Flynn "back in 2002, when, a couple of days after a racist attack left a Chinese student dead, O’Flynn decided to launch a broadside against asylum seekers, denigrating them as “spongers, freeloaders, wasters and con-men”. Irish Examiner 29 Feb 2012 http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpo...artin-a-fright-ahead-of-ard-fheis-185526.html) has gained no traction.
almost 30 years after the fall of berlin wall , the failure of the soviet union and the fall of communism, the left is on the rise again. Are we in danger of a major conflagration, but the major military powers, the US, Russia and China are essentially on the same side. They want the global order to remain but with them in charge rather than the other. The new media is essentially left wing but powerless, they dont posess nuclear weapons. Their strength lies in the fact that the powerful dont want to use their ultimate weapon because of what they fear the equally powerful will do. Are the left wing media in danger of provoking the elephant in the room to stamp on the mouse and provoke the other elephants.
probably a bit over the top in hindsight, I just think that traditional left wing agendas have been taken up unchallenged by the new media. The failures of communism have been brushed under the carpet and are no longer really discussed. It is trendy now to be socialist and for equality etc but nobody now goes into the nitty gritty of the failure of communism where everybody was equal in theory. But nobody wanted to do the hard dirty jobs if they were not going to be paid properly for those jobs so there were shortages of everything. Then the ugly stuff happened forced labour to force people to do the tough jobs.
Any system which ignores human self interest is doomed.
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