The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵 There's no mystery about why Farage, Trump, Boris Johnson and others of their stamp get away with things that would instantly destroy any leftwing politician: they're protected by the oligarchs they serve, who own most of the media and intimidate much of the rest. There quickly comes a point at which reasonable investigation of a candidate or party leader on the left tips into deranged obsession. Their real crime is to challenge power. They must be demonised and neutralised at all costs. Armies of journalists are deployed to unearth whatever they can. Some of the charges are so petty and tenuous that if they were levelled at anyone else, the shame would land on the reporters, not their targets. But with leftwing politicians, anything goes. The thread on one page: skywriter.blue
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