t seems that in many people's minds, the political right has successfully linked their experience of decline in living standards and economic and social security with immigration. This link is a fiction - but meanwhile the left's true account of decline - that it's about a massive transfer of wealth from the public, and the public sector, to wealthy corporations and individuals - fails to cut through. Why ?
While the left itself sometimes fails to focus on the experience of decline and what is really behind it, I think the main problem is the sheer weight of centrist politics and mainstream media coverage. They avoid exploration of the fundamental economics of capitalism, but repeatedly focus on immigration.
It's important to understand that whether an individual news report is good or bad is not so important - what matters is that immigration is in the news so often, creating the impression that it is the key issue.
@GeofCox The media and politicians on the right and the other right (aka center) have been very successful at tying crime-insecurity to race and immigration. By repetition and cherry picking stories, data.
Here in Sweden TV news often start with a crime story. You'd think we're drowning in crime, which feels at odds with my own perception.
To me the failure of the left to tie declining living standards to growing inequality as data shows, comes down to captured press and politicians, and racism