Just like writers, political analysts are given to the ‘narrative fallacy. It’s the tendency to take a gaggle of complicated and even random data and boil them down into a simple but barely deceptive story. After Brexit, the unstoppable forces of nativism have been on the march. Then after, Macron’s sensible centrism becomes again. Now the unconventional left, with unstoppable elan, seems to be the politics of destiny.
One key element of the state-of-the-art narrative is the idea that the net swung it for Corbyn, in two acts:
1. The Tory press, which did all it could to undermine Corbin, has misplaced its electricity. It’s being supplanted with the aid of ‘alternative media’ (Canary, Another Angry Voice, etc.) and its shareable social media content material.
2. Young human beings, so cozy with this new global, observed or created an alternative message online and reached/mobilized millions with a message of wish and innovative politics.
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As ever, there may be some truth to this (even though it’s remarkable how short our collective recollections are: only a few months in the past, we’d all agreed the radical proper had outsmarted the left online). But something some distance bigger is taking place, which is essentially changing people’s attitudes towards political events, leaders, and thoughts. It’s greater vital than Brexit or Trump, or Corbyn. Having disrupted our economies, the net has moved onto our political gadget and is converting what we expect of our leaders. This has helped Corbyn; however, he should right away swing in opposition to him too.
The digital prophets advised us long in the past that infinite records and general connectivity would make us extra knowledgeable, much less bigoted and kinder. But they disregarded human nature. The internet is an amazing smorgasbord of competing facts, claims, blogs, statistics, masquerading propaganda, misinformation, investigative journalism, charts, one-of-a-kind charts, commentary, and reportage. It’s too much! By necessity in our busy lives, we pay attention to the one person making a greater noise than anyone else, and we best have time to click on that funny aspect on the top of our feeds or the factor our pals – who think like us – have published. Emotional heuristics, basically shortcuts for the thoughts, are vital to making the experience of the confusion.
This way, the leader’s character is expanded in particular else because it’s miles the very best heuristic device we’ve got, a simple proxy for all other matters. I don’t recall an election that became extra about personalities than this one. Mother Theresa walking via wheat fields, robust and solid, Corbyn doing the dab et cetera. As I argue in my new book Radicals, the maximum a hit virtual politicians of this century are Donald Trump and Italian comic Beppe Grillo. Neither ever held workplace earlier than. Both had been extraordinarily famous personalities in their own proper.
The Corbyn supporters will, of the route, respond that he received on the ‘issues.’ But I’m no longer convinced because plenty of his rules loved excessive ranges of help even when he was 20 points in the back of in opinion polls. The key shift in polls appeared to be while May turned into finding out as neither robust nor strong and when Corbyn became observed out to not be a complete duffer in spite of everything, however truly pretty persuasive and apparently regular in his views.
People determined they favored Corbyn more than the concept and disliked May extra than her advisers expected. They liked the fluency of his rage in opposition to injustice, his naturalness about saving the NHS. But she couldn’t join emotionally, should she? Maybe they just couldn’t ‘connect’ with ordinary human beings. That’s simply not excellent enough now. I doubt John Major would have overwhelmed Neil Kinnock if we’d had Twitter and Facebook in 1992. Further proof: May’s inability to sincerely speak to the families from Grenfell Tower. The assessment among her aloof distance and Corbyn’s willingness to consolation and console in person couldn’t be clearer. It turned an already disastrous week right into a probably terminal one.
Second, and this facilitates explain the above, is the way the net has converted ‘authenticity’ right into a peerless political characteristic.
