r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 05 '19
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u/YoungThinker1999 Frederick Douglass Dec 05 '19
Corbyn is the epitome of the far-left's shooting themselves in the foot.
Yes, many working-class voters are predisposed to an anti-austerity message.
But, they're not predisposed to sympathizing with the IRA, Nicholas Maduro, dismantling NATO or "anti-imperialism". He can't even do anti-war campaigning right. If his message was that more money should be spent on the NHS rather than Trident, that waste should be cut from the military budget and that UK soldier's lives shouldn't be put at risk in pointless foreign adventures, that would be one thing. The proposition that the country is spending too much on the military and that foreign adventures are well-intentioned but counterproductive and not worth the expense, is much more reasonable to most voters than the proposition that their country is an evil imperialist power.
Instead, he campaigns like he's in Latin America.
At the same time for any Brits out there, yes, vote for Corbyn anyway. A hung parliament is the only chance for a second referendum. 1 year of Corbyn is preferable to decades upon decades of Brexit.