The Power of Nightmares
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TOry and conservative are the same thing!
I've never voted before, cos back in the late 90s, I was convinced politics was dead. Globalisation had destroyed the idea of nation state, and good riddance in my book. That all politicians were responsible for these days was managing the economy, and that was done by civil servants and focus groups anyway. I kept reading stuff on "the end of ideology" and i did an essay on Fukuyamas end of history in uni.
But then i started reading these books:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obi…
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obi…in it the writers talk about how capitalism needs eternal, disciplinarian wars to fend off the crisis of globalisation. And just watching what Bush is doing and how shocking it is that the Labour governments entire election manifesto this year will be based on security. How they're using terror as a way of tackling the threat of globalisation (primarily immigration and the free-flow of labour that threatens to undermine the idea of the state).
So i think it is time to vote once again, and vote for the most bland party. Even though i'm no fan of the lib dems, (politically i'm more in line with Anarchism)