I recently listened to a poet on Tik Tok skewering the UK's equivalents of Clinton's "deplorables" – the "gammons" with their narrow obsessions about celebrities and "woke"– aka politically correct – politics.
He was very clever, and correct in many ways but I couldn't help but wonder, why choose such an easy, low hanging target?
Why not aim at the nexus of entrenched power and all those who serve and protect it?
The creators and beneficiaries of the globe's ever widening economic rifts – those who force vast numbers of people onto narrow and perilous life paths, a fall from which is seldom recoverable.
The system adjusters who are so focused on the retention or expansion of their delegated power and privilege, they either don't see the looming abyss, or believe they'll be spared by the grace of god, or their talents and hard work, or simply because they're worth it.
The system manipulators who curate the appearance of democracy, and those who control a mass media that feeds a constant stream of toxic froth and propaganda aimed at distracting people from the very existence of the abyss.
All those whose cynical and self-serving designs, in the context of rapidly accelerating time scales of interconnected social and natural disasters, make any sort of meaningful position to the power nexus slide from difficult to virtually impossible.
Why is it just the soft, low hanging, about-to-fall fruit and the windfalls that this poet chooses to macerate?
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