HOW do you know when politicians are lying? When they are signalling virtue. As the last three years has shown, their supposed liberal values are a façade, masking a self-serving and authoritarian outlook. Unless useful to their career, they are not really interested in the wants and needs of ordinary people. They want to be seen as progressive and compassionate, but by performance rather than by principles and practice. Our corrupt mainstream media do their bidding.
Such pretence is evident in the brazenly hypocritical reactions to protests in China against Covid-19 restrictions. Political leaders and mainstream newspapers are competing for the most sanctimonious grandstanding.
Clashes between police and protesters
Video from 1 December, but we do not know the location.#China #ChinaUprisingThread #ChinaProtests #chinaprotest #toofannews #ChinaProtest2022 pic.twitter.com/RHnUAHAZwq— Toofan News (@ToofanNewsHyd) December 1, 2022
