Quote from: gentlemand on September 02, 2019, 10:35:28 AM

It seems to be repeating everywhere now. In the UK we either have a bunch of right wing pricks who are clueless, or we have a bunch of commies stuck in the 70s who are even more clueless.

I don't understand where the competent people have gone. These days it's either psychopaths or the fractious and ineffective.

it's not a coincidence

Some people in the UK media have been promoting Boris Johnson as a political personality for over 15 years. Ask yourself: what for?

he's a total buffoon. he has almost nothing to offer, and yet he became the ostensible most powerful figure in UK politics. There are hundreds of representatives in the British parliament, and the editorial wing of the UK media chose to devote untold amounts of pages/minutes to someone with no redeeming features or skills, as if those qualities are in and of themselves newsworthy? "WORST POLITICIAN YET" was the perennial gist of every Boris story, ever

and these people supposedly have even the slightest sense of responsibility for starting that downward spiral?

the apparent fact is that people like Boris Johnson can become well-known for being bad at doing everything, then become Prime Minister. If just getting alot of TV time can do that, there's something seriously wrong with this garbage culture, as it's this sort of supposedly mindless behaviour by the media that has caused the rise of the "incompetent leader" all over the world, not just the UK. And the media did this worldwide, in synchrony? While international relations are breaking down for unrelated reasons?

Quote from: Lucius on September 02, 2019, 12:42:28 PM

There have been good politicians in the past (JFK), but they dont last long in a world like this.

John Kennedy was as bad as the rest of them, plenty of skeletons in that cupboard. He made the mistake of trying to upset the rest of the established power structure, and someone was sufficiently pissed to have him murdered. The whole hero worship thing was just what you do when head of state is killed, all the more so when some people in the media knew they had to help cover up the circumstances of the shooting. Making out JFK as an angel sent from heaven strengthened the effect of the "have some respect for the dead" argument when people speculated about inconsistencies in the official narrative.