The UK Labour Party is screwed. How could they be so stupid to hand power to £3 members? It'll be lost on the margins for a generation.
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The point of the Labour Party is to make things very slightly better for the those who most need things to be better.
Confirmation bias has something to do with the phenomenon of the Left gravitating to the extreme. If you only mix with fellow travelers...
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if you dismiss your critics as racists, misogynists, fascists, then it's very easy to believe that all "decent" people, the majority,...
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will line up behind your political project, if only you can get your message out without the distortions of the capitalist media...
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and the nefarious influence of bourgeois revisionists within your own party. It's bollox, of course, but it's seductive bollox.
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Social media makes it worse, because - to borrow from Gordon Graham - it encourages the formation of pure confluences of influence.
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You really can shut yourself off from tendencies that might lead you to question your monopoly on moral righteousness & political wisdom.
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Confirmation bias goes for the Right too
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Well, we're all likely to be seduced by it, of course.
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