The false assumption behind the Right Wing Agenda

 It is a fact that people find it hard to accept responsibility for their own life circumstances and find it easier to point the finger at others. In a similar way a group of people or a nation find it hard to accept the state of their group or nation is due to their past decisions or actions. Right wing politicians use this fact by exaggerating how bad things are and then go on to say how much better your life could be, or how much better the nation would be if only “they” or “it” could be stopped and of course they are the ones for the job. Right wing politicians provide an alternative reality which takes away personal responsibility and places it firmly on, not you or your group, but on “others” who must be removed before things will improve.

Here in the UK we had Brexit. The right wing promoted this as a “cure all” for the nations problems. If only we left the EU we could take back control, do our own trade deals, pour money into the free healthcare systems and industry would surge ahead. The cause of the nations problems was not poor government policy or a lazy nation that is unproductive and greedy for ever increasing  welfare hand outs, but all those European bureaucrats with their open borders, that ripped us off and passed laws to hold us back. Hence the solution, they told the voters, was to leave Europe and all would be well. 

Brexit happened years ago now and the right wing hardly mentions it today. That is because Brexit has failed to deliver any major advantages and has caused many disadvantages. So what has the right wing done - it has moved on to someone else to blame. This time it’s the migrants which are ruining the country. They are the political scape goats that now have to be stopped because they are the cause of the all the nations problems. They ignore the fact that migrants are hard working, do low paid physical jobs us Brits don’t want to do, bring cultural variety  and really appreciate living here, and instead blame this  minority group  and insist they are stopped. 

The fact that our economy is flat lining because of lack of investment, poor productivity, high regulation; because  our population is mostly over 50, and because 1 in 4 is classed as disabled and hence claiming state benefits, is also conveniently ignored. The nations problems are not due to us the voters or the people we elected, but because of “others” ie migrants.

And what would happen if migration were stopped? Would the country and voters personal circumstances greatly improve? Of course not. It would be just like brexit. They would just stop blaming migrants and move on to another set of “others”. Only this time it would be “others” of their own nation ie their political opponents, the press, or the judges. 

And this exposes the false assumption behind the Right wing agenda. The reason for our problems is internal not external. “Others” are not to blame, we are.