A general “dumbing down” of a significant percentage of the population?
The silicon chip and now AI means you don’t have to think too hard anymore. Let’s face it, you don’t need to count out your money to make a purchase nowadays. Just wave your phone or a card at a machine!
Everything needs to be pigeon-holed or labelled. Housing shortage? Immigrants! Long NHS waiting lists? Immigrants! Job losses? Immigrants! Easy scapegoats fuelled by the likes of Farage and the gutter press.
I was driving down the A68 through County Durham last week and there were lots of Union Jacks and St George’s Crosses flying in places such as Tow Law and West Auckland. Absolutely no asylum seekers anywhere near yet they feed off the rhetoric.
Impoverished former mining towns of course, but they are flying the flags of the country whose government sold them down the river decades ago. Crazy!
