Just A Lot Of Them.

In between the two types I mentioned yesterday?
A vast mass of people who are either apparachniks or fellow-travellers, the sympathisers and useful idiots of those who exploit the civilisation-gap.

These people believe that rules are necessary, not to combat their own evils(for they are vituous), but to protect the innocent masses from themselves and from the huge number of evil-doers just waiting in the wings.

These people used to be the fag-ends of Conservatism, the vociferous minority tolerated for their loyalty.

But these people were betrayed by the genuine pursuit of liberty in the seventies and eighties, and it is to these alienated bums that modern socialism appeals.
The message has changed, the means remains the same.
In Canada, the United States, Britain, Spain, the method has been to borrow the clothing of 'common sense' and appeal to these savages in the sure knowledge that they will parrot any glib catchphrase that appears to promise fulfilment of their sordid disciplinarian dreams.

So liberty perishes under the onslaught of halfwits from the suburbs who shriek when a Mars Bar wrapper appears behind their privet hedges, and are all too easily taught to gag when a smoker lights up in a public place.

Of course, such sloshing sentimentality dies out eventually and there is a reaction; but the socialists are prepared for this in the way they bury any possible return to former times.

This is why the 'Millenium' was such a big deal(to them).
And why Mrs. Thatcher is still 'Thatcher' and a bad thing.
And why every lie must prevent popularity for George W.Bush.