COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY OWEN JONES IN THE GUARDIAN
"Are we to be
fearful of a slide to the populist right because we are concerned about the
right-wing nature of the policies, or because they are populist?"
That is an excellent observation from a reader below.
Considering Owen Jones' record and that of the paper for
which he writes, I suggest strongly that it is the latter, "because they
are populist."
The establishment - and that very much includes a portion of
prominent publishers, columnists, and politicians who claim allegiance to what
I regard as a kind of faux liberalism - is afraid of nothing so much as genuine
democracy, genuine popular expression.
After all, their entrenched power and authority can be
blotted out in a vote.
