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UK elections are on Thursday, and in a few months, Nigel Farage has raised his Reform party from 6 to now 17 percent.

Yep… that Farage, who promised UK voters a land of milk and honey, if they voted for his Brexit. And now that Brexit has proven to be a ticket to economic disaster and endless bureaucracy, Farage is telling the Brits, that its all the immigrants’ fault.

17 percent have fallen for this conman.

It is a mystery, how humans could ever become the dominant species on this planet.

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@randahl Anti-establishment populists allow people to indulge in fantasy politics (and fantasy history). They create a coalition of contradictions and absurdities that can only ever remain unfulfilled; but that anti-establishment element mixed with nationalist nostalgia makes people feel hopeful.

It is blind faith in a hopeful world-view, like religion, like first love. It's a mindset in which we want to be fooled because it feels so good.

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