Pro-Corbyn Ad Maddens Right-Wingers — Because It’s Effective
It’s a simple equation: The more furious they get, the better your ad probably was.
Jeremy Corbyn has enjoyed a graceful rise to his current popularity, with his leadership taking down the Tory majority in the recent election, and his increases in the polls. Of course, with any progressive rising star, the corporate media jumps on the corporate bandwagon to falsely smear that progressive. We’ve heard that tune in the US before.
But it’s not just the corporate neo-liberal media that desperately smears progressives, it’s also right wingers. You know, the people that say that “millennials are lazy people that just want free stuff”, and that “money doesn’t come out of nowhere, you can’t pay for anything you’re offering”, and that “these lazy socialists should just work hard, then they’ll get somewhere in life”. We’ve also heard this tune in the US as well.
Isn’t it so cheerful and inspiring how accurate and totally objective and non-corporate-talking-point-like our corporate media reports about things?
Anyways, you don’t have to go to Fox News to get this talk, you can hear it all the time in right-wing circles, most of the time, older right-wing circles. Most of the time, this talk is condescendingly calm, and parent-like. But now, it has turned a little aggressive after Momentum, a pro-Corbyn organization put out an ad that perfectly highlights the extreme hypocrisy in these right wingers’ arguments. Take a look:
Well. Done.
Of course, as mentioned earlier, right wingers got furious. Here’s a couple examples:
Right, saying that right wingers are criticizing young people for advocating for things those right wingers had taken advantage of is hateful, but calling millennials lazy socialists without a life isn’t hateful? Also, these aren’t exaggerated caricatures, this kind of thing happens all of the time in real life, in conversations over the dinner table, to conversations over the Fox News table.
Plus, these arguments have been completely debunked decades ago. The neo-liberalism and corporatism that Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the 80’s brought us, you know, trickle down economics and all that jazz — that’s been proven false. It turns out if you funnel the money to the top, it stays at the top, but if you funnel the money down to people who haven’t had the chance to contribute to the economy and society, they will end up contributing to the economy and society. It was a dirty scam set up by incredibly greedy elitists that brainwashed a generation. But not this one.
The rise of progressivism and the fall of neo-liberalism is due to a number of factors, one of them being millennials who are sick and tired of being thrown under the bus and being told that they just don’t work hard enough. I have a secret, Donald Trump did not work hard to get that $3.5 billion net worth, he got it from his father. But millennials on the other hand can work full-time and not have enough to pay their rent, put food on the table, and get an education. Many can work upwards of three jobs. And these jobs are not pleasant. Fast-food worker. Waiter. Retail. Register. These are hard jobs that take hard work, and the people that bust their backs working these jobs stay on that bottom rung of the social ladder. Donald Trump never worked any of those jobs. He’s probably never worked hard in his life. And yet, he’s a billionaire, unlike all of the truly hard-working people in this country.
So don’t tell me “millennials just need to work harder”, and that you “worked hard to get where you are today”. Sure, you might’ve worked hard (maybe), but that’s not what makes the difference. Luck. Privilege. Inherited money. That’s what puts people over the top. Otherwise, almost every billionaire in the world would live the same way truly hard-working people live now.
But I don’t need to tell right-wingers this, Jeremy Corbyn already has. And he will continue to do so, just like Bernie Sanders, and just like every other person that’s paying attention to our geo-political situation, and how it is dominated by the elites, and multi-national corporations.
Bring it on right wingers and media pundits, we’ve got the people, and some of the most popular politicians in the world on our side and ready to fight.
