Mind's Eye PEGIDA

There are any number of anti-Islamist protests around Britain, usually clashes between the EDL (English Defence League) and AFF (anti fascist front).  These close our town centre and there is some violence.  Germany is having bigger demonstrations - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11309449/Record-numbers-rally-against-Islamisation-in-Germany.html

Gabby has mentioned before that the same goose-steeping fetishists may be involved wherever the demos take place. 

Organised religion makes me uncomfortable generally.  Like Spinoza, I don't want it to be a major part of public, political life, though don't like these demonstrations.  We don't seem to be able to sensibly and effectively protest anything these days.  My last try was in the Thatcher days, but even then I joined the Labour Party thinking Blair was something of a way forward, not a warmongering creep out to line his own pockets.  In the once bitten twice shy mode since, I'm worried even the Greens could let me down in the same way.  I thought I was living in a largely secular society (even if a fair number remained privately religious - even I probably do).  I'm not likely to be out supporting PEGIDA, yet I do worry the attack on secular values is a form of sedition.  Here we have an almost credible fascist party - UKIP - appealing to some pretty deep hatreds of immigrants - and we are seeing some change away from the perspective that even such discussion is racist.

I see no sensible discussion on any of this and wonder if there is any here.  It's not that long since I was expected to go about tub-thumping the virtues of Japanese management practices when they were, in fact, running the country into the ground - something our corporate-political elites seem set on everywhere.  The rich seem the correct target for any rage, but Occupy has so far been limited.  I've been aware of answers for years - all in esoteric-academic corners hardly anyone gets to know like surplus capital theory.  War was our last 'cure'.  This may be where they intend to turn current anger.

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