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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
So it's leftist revolution or bust. And the people who want revolution are concentrated in like-minded social circles, so they dramatically over-estimate how widespread their outlook is.
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Your reading comprehension is lacking again, Cliff. We have populism on both sides of the spectrum as a direct result of 50+ years of neoliberalism dominating the political and economic discourse. Voters clearly rejected centrism the last go around and it's being rejected all over Europe, with right and left populist parties popping up to take its place.
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Again, anyone who doesn't see the parallel with Corbynism and the UK election is being wilfully blind.
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It's weird that this keeps getting brought up, but not the fact Corbyn garnered more votes for Labour in his first election than they had received in each of the previous elections, and only 0.7% less than Blair received when he was first re-elected.
It's pretty obvious to most people that there were more issues at play in the last British election than just Corbyn's political stances, but I suppose that doesn't fit the neat little narrative that centrists have crafted for themselves.