Genuinely conservative writers - who reject endless war and crony
capitalism - have also been marginalized. Instead we’ve got a
political commentariat dominated by a smug, mutually-adoring
clique of neocons and fake-leftists, all espousing the same
Pentagon-friendly, crony capitalism-friendly views, and
supporting the same “humanitarian” military
“interventions.” We saw this new establishment orthodoxy
in the way the “Iraq has WMDs which threaten the world”
propaganda was peddled in the lead up to the illegal 2003
invasion, and we see it today in the promotion of a non-existence
“threat” from Russia and the relentless demonization of
Vladimir Putin. In 1975 we had a state that didn’t go to war, but
which generously funded public libraries, today, in the words of
Andrew Murray of the Stop the War coalition,
we have a state that is big enough for a war, but too small to
keep public libraries open.
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