7 November

Here's what I think very few seem to get about politics. When politicians win elections, they congratulate theselves for the victory. Commentators do too. They attribute the victory, to the politician. But the majority of people don't vote for politicians. They vote according to the material conditions of their lives. If things are going well for them, they will generally give whoever is in power another go. If things are going badly, they will vote for somebody else. What determines elections is the material conditions of peoples' lives. A 'landslide' victory should terrify any politician. You won't find any of those that end well. A landslide means peoples' material conditions are seriously bad, and they're looking for somebody to help them. None of these politicians have a clue how to help them. Retribution is then brutal, it's just a matter of time. Mussolini promised Italy a golden age. They killed him and hung him by his feet in a public square, when he didn't deliver.