Britain’s Labour Party Got Woke And Now It’s Broke – Quillette

Plenty of better writers than me Douglas Murray, John Gray have debunked the notion that the only reason low-income voters embrace right-wing politics is because they re drunk on a cocktail of ethno-nationalism and false hope (with Rupert Murdoch and Vladimir Putin taking turns as mixologists). It surely has more to do with the Left s sneering contempt for the deplorables in the flyover states as they shuttle back and forth between their walled, cosmopolitan strongholds. As Corbyn s policy platform in Britain s election showed, left-wing parties now have little to offer indigenous, working class people outside the big cities and their activists often add insult to injury by describing these left-behind voters as privileged because they re white or cis-gendered or whatever. So long as parties like Labour pander to their middle-class, identitarian activists and ignore the interests of the genuinely disadvantaged, they ll continue to rack up loss after loss. Get woke, go broke.

via quillette.com