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Ugly parties like to promise ponies for everyone on the economic front. But when the wheel hits the rail and they actually have to cast votes, they tend to toe the right-wing line. Because they normally care more about not liking brown people than about economic policy, so the latter is where they sell out.
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
Because they normally care more about not liking brown people than about economic policy, ...
Let's see. Promote a policy that creates wealth or a policy that screws the darkies? Yeah, choice two.
Beautiful. They tried to assimilate me. They failed.
But, there is more to this than campaign vs. policies. This modern Western sense of what constitutes economic rigt and economic left is too narrow. Most right-wing governments around the world in the last two centuries were rather illiberal on the economy, and policies included, not without opposition from liberals of the day, semi-Keynesian state spending programmes (say, railways or city renewals) and state paternalism (say, the origins of the welfare state under Bismarck) which are now commonly attributed to the economic left. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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