Message in a bottle.

I have a memory of you, so vivid, so visceral and yet I know you hardly at all. Recalling words shared, the laughter had, the way we touched, so raw it sways me still. I want to know you now, to see you, to realize if what I felt then has lasted somehow. Was it purely a fleeting moment in time I hold fast, or part of my past I need to put behind. You woke my bind from years of stolen slumber with your unhinging, unknowing need. But sweet unfinished business, my March dream, that's what you are and remain to me.

Stuck in the middle with you.

I've often posterized over the centre ground in politics..is it middle of the road thinking? Taking no particular stance? Passively appeasing the elite whilst throwing crumbs at the disquieted peasants? If the centre ground is taking a position whereby there are greater shares of the spoils, which would seem more central than centrists politicize then Corbyn is our man. He's hardly hard left as speculated. We are not going to rid ourselves of the life destructive capitalism of our age in one massive leap of faith...change takes time and shifting people has to be done gently but which way that shift swings depends on where we stand at the time. With UK politics swung harder to the right of late anything centre of that is going to seem radical but compared to the left of the past or other left leaning countries, it's pretty much a centre playing field. Of course, anything 'taken' from the greedy elite is going to be protested heavily...why, after all, should they provide for all those they have deprived?

So we can look at the middle classes, would they be in that centrist position, kinda wanting more for the poorest but so long as it doesn't take anything from their pockets, kinda wanting a bigger slice of the elitist pie because, let's face it, being up there in a lofty somewhere is significantly more desirable than being all the way down there where the nouveau riche had its origins and certainly don't want those roots planting them firmly in the lower classes again or wanting to stay exactly where they are? The trouble with centrist policies is it's not those at either end who are left out of the discussion, it's those in the disregarded heap at the bottom who are left to fend for themselves, those at the top will always be all right. The biggest question is, is there really such a thing as centrist politics? How can there be equality, social justice and cooperation between those who want it all and those who have too little? The centrist ground is still almost everything for the top 1-10% and perhaps just about enough for the poorest larger % depending if the centrists prop up the right or the left...opportunists maybe? The left under Corbyn has not promised an extreme influx of money flowing to the bottom but rather a public movement of social conciseness to redress the growing imbalance of the neoliberal capitalism of the further right the better right wing who will take as much as we permit them to continue taking. Centrists ground hardly stirs up echoes of the age old revolutionary stance we desperately need to take back the billions of lives lost to greed, corruption and polarized politics between the centre and the right. Pic source: https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/17/where-has-the-centre-ground-in-politics-gone-7950550/

Socialism and it's inevitable destruction of common sense.

I witness the abuse daily. The insults I encounter for being a left wing socialist supporting Jeremy Corbyn are as colourful as numerous. I don't rise to the bait, understanding this provocation is just what they want as evidence of a hard left militant rising. I can't help but reply with sarcasm at times when the insults are so ludicrous to know even where to being in addressing the givers beliefs. For some bizarre reason, being a socialist is something not to take seriously, like a save the planet woolly jumper vegetarian hippy flower wearing flip flopping marijuana toker is considered a source of ambivalence, harmless yet of no real use to society...and yet, without socialism this society we currently live in, the wealth, health and comfort of the many who have done well from previous years simply wouldn't exist. The short sightedness and gullibility of people willfully following the right wing, red, blue or yellow is what we need to be wary of, the bloody corruption of the elitist right wing is what we need to be in fear of, and Corbyn? The only man who consistently and relentlessly despite the constant abuse supports the 'ordinary' people, speaks for the people, fights for the people, justice, democracy, equality, transparency, working with what is considered terrorists to bring about unilateral peace? Yeah, we should be very scared of him.