How policies are justified is increasingly being detached from the aims and consequences of them, partly because democratic processes and basic human rights are being disassembled or side-stepped, and partly because the current government employs the widespread use of a “malevolent benevolence”type of propaganda to intentionally divert us from the aims and the consequences of their ideologically (rather than rationally) driven policies.
An example of such propaganda is the common use of words such as “support”, “incentives” “responsibility” and “fairness” to legitimise welfare cuts during a recession and the punitive benefit sanctions regime introduced by the Coalition. (I’ve written at length about this elsewhere on this site).
Furthermore, policies have become increasingly detached from public interests and needs.
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