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Typically I don't engage with libs on politics because we're using entirely different lenses of analysis.
But in the past year people in my life have gone from asking me why I'm not voting for labour in the general election, to asking me to explain why I knew labour would be so bad, to asking me to explain Ibrahim Traoré and the Sahel to them because they like his reforms(?!??).
People want something to believe in.
something must've gone viral on tiktok or something because this is the second or third time in about a week I've heard about politically disengaged liberals asking about Burkina Faso
It must be something like that.
This week I had to go to an office of ours I don’t often go in, and was baffled to have my coworkers mock me because “my guy” was doing such a bad job.
I had to explain that despite (because?) their accurate jeering assessment of me as a woke lefty, why Keir is most certainly not “my guy” and I absolutely didn’t vote for him.
The average Brit has zero political literacy, presumably by design of the education system.
i know it's shallow, but i love these moments. not for my ego, but because it gives me an excuse to be like "well they call it the immortal science for a reason 🤓"
I said a year ago that labour was going to be so dreadful there we'd see a surge in Reform.
Now that that's come to pass, friends asking me what's going to happen next and all I can say is I don't know - I just hope we'll all be ok.