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8 November 2019 20:26![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaon"Jeremy Corbyn will take us back to the 1970s!!!!"
(For my international readers, there is a General Election happening in the UK at the moment; Corbyn leads the left-wing Labour party)
I don't understand why this is a slur. Look at almost any graph. Carbon emissions. Inequality between rich and poor. Increasing productivity vs wage stagnation. House prices.
In all of them, it's the 70s where it goes from a gentle upwards ramp to a sharp and escalating spike. Whatever is wrong with the world now, started going wrong in the 70s. So if a vote for the man genuinely returns us to the politics of the 70s, perhaps that's exactly where we ought to be.
(For my international readers, there is a General Election happening in the UK at the moment; Corbyn leads the left-wing Labour party)
I don't understand why this is a slur. Look at almost any graph. Carbon emissions. Inequality between rich and poor. Increasing productivity vs wage stagnation. House prices.
In all of them, it's the 70s where it goes from a gentle upwards ramp to a sharp and escalating spike. Whatever is wrong with the world now, started going wrong in the 70s. So if a vote for the man genuinely returns us to the politics of the 70s, perhaps that's exactly where we ought to be.
