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Originally Posted by Pierre
Funny that, as unless I dream't it, all the anti- globalisation protests of the last few years have been strictly left-wing.
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Yes. One of the big 'left-wing' things was to be against the 'neoliberal' view of the world. The W.T.O has enemy no 1. Now I don't think they've all become pro-business liberals but I think that the lines are blurring and people are shifting.
I haven't quite crystallised it in my own head yet. But look at Trump. Some of the things he has been saying are not conventionally Republican. He is quite protectionist, he wants to put up tariffs to 'save American jobs', he wants to spend a lot of money. Look at Labour. It used to find it's support though a collection of traditional working class, labour, type voters and (for want of a better world) metropolitan liberals. Now they seem to be sitting on the biggest divide in politics.
Like I said it's hard to know exactly but I think things are changing.
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Originally Posted by Ramrod
If you're talking about the anti Trump protests then I despair.....
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I am talking about yesterday's protests, not the ones on the day of the inauguration, protests are part of a democracy and violence isn't.