When New Labour were voted in, the majority of us were sick of right wing politics.
When half of the country objected to the Iraq war, those people were thought of as 'liberal'.
Now, when you read answers to questions about terrorists in this country (like the thread on todays foiled beheading plot, see below for a link), most of the answers are less than liberal in tone, in fact they're downright angry and fed up with the situation concerning immigrants. Meanwhile, people were ready to lynch Jade Goody for her (semi?) apparent racism. It's really easy to generalise over this, but I'm thinking of trends in both our cultural ideology and individual attitudes. Are we subtly shifting towards facism? How can we balance the need to be tolerant with the current political reality? How can human nature overcome the problems we face today?
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiCfLQDeJKJjf6RebQZAGqzsy6IX?qid=20070131035854AAfwhy5&show=7#profile-info-dFiL9vcHaa
2007-01-30
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