Colin Davies
OK, so we live in a time when right wing
politics is on the rise. People like Donald Trump are gaining support
by blurting out cheap, fear laden ideas that feed hate filled views and
give people with underlying racist attitudes a voice, someone who speaks
for them. They dress it all up as Trump is just a man who “tells it
like it is.”
But he doesn’t speak for the
ordinary man. He speaks for rich people. Vomiting out thoughts that the
mega rich have. Taping into that most basic of primal phobias. “They
ain’t like us, so they want to hurt us.” By using this notion this rich
egotist can poke at the hornets nest and rally up an angry mob. Much
like Hitler did in the 1930s.
I’m not the first to point
this out, and I won;t be the last. I am though, beginning to get annoyed
at the whole class and money divide. They way that people in power
flaunt their wealth in order to pitch people low down the pecking order
against each other.
Its like the banker and the biscuits metaphor is more of an instructional text than a wry piece of satire.
A
banker, a Daily Mail reader and a benefit claimant are sat at a table.
On a plate in the middle are 12 biscuits. The banker takes 11 biscuits
for himself, then turns to the Daily Mail reader and says — “watch out
for that benefit claimant, he’s after your biscuit”
And it doesn’t stop their. In
the UK they have just ran a campaign called “Clean for the Queen.” They
were trying to encourage the normal working people (a lot of whom are
on very low wages) to go out and clean up the rubbish from the streets
left there by disenfranchised youth, overpaid sales executives who think
dropping litter is giving people jobs, and the lack of street cleaners
because the cut being made by the austerity ideology of this right wing
government to try and clean up the mess left behind from helping the
bank industry after it destroyed the economy with its own greed. So that
the Queen could walk to the shops on her 90th birthday without seeing a
disregarded crisp packet.
The power that be truly
believe this is something ordinary people would love to do, with a
little fist pumping encouragement. But the truth is, it is hard out
there. People are struggling to feed their kids while the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge are releasing photos of them going on their first
skiing holiday since the birth of their second child because “its been
hard to get away.”
Call me Dave and his coke
snorting chum George, are making policies based on their own personal
views of how things should work, not on the fact presenting themselves
out there in the real world. Ian Duncan Smith, who resides of a
department and implements policies that have killed my British people
that ISIS, seems to ooze contempt for the commoner trying to get by on
less than £70 a week. The modern rhyming slang Jeremy (taking over from
Gareth and Barkley) talks with such arrogance about the Jr Doctor’s
contracts that it is easy to understand why his name keep getting thrown
back at him.
Time after time, the people
on the bread line get shafted and then the rich and powerful get shoved
in their faces; just to rub it in how poor they are, or were. The
government is changing what it means to be poor. By re-classifying it
and moving the number that is considered to be the breadline down, they
will manage to take thousands of children out of poverty. By shifting
them from one column to another. These kids are still hungry, only now,
the politicians don’t think they are poor.
There needs to be a redress
in the balance of power and wealth. I’m not opposed to people making
money, or even being rich. I am however, utterly disgusted when people
loose their jobs or have to take low paid work because ‘the purpose of a
company is first and foremost to maximize shareholder value.’ So even
though a company has made a good profit, because it wasn’t as good as
last years, they have to engage in cost cutting just to keep the value
of shares up so that the people who already have lots of money can make
more money by doing nothing other than buying part of a company and
insisting that company lays people off so that the not as good a profit
doesn’t effect their money.
Donald Trump is
part of this problem. A rich bigot who has no understanding of the real
world. A man who can play to the WASPs and get them singing. He is the
one taking 11 cookies and then telling the middle classes that the
Mexicans want the one left for them.
Colin is an award
winning author; short listed spoken word artist; script writer;
satirist; comedian; philosopher; role player; comic book reader; lover
of films & muisc.
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