Stupidity, Laziness, Fear and Bullshit!

There is an interesting article in The National today, and very well covered by Peter A Bell over on Referendum 2018.

If you haven’t checked out Referendum 2018 then you should, it is one of the best sites out there devoted to not only supporting Scottish independence but educating along the way, and I suppose educating the very people that the article in the National is talking about. Iain Black noted in the article that some of the people he spoke to felt overwhelmed and confused by the amount of elections we have had recently and I have some sympathy for that view. Iain claims that “I THINK a lot of people would have voted differently if they had the right information. Lack of information baffled a lot of people.” Peter rightly points out that the whole purpose of Better Together was to generate doubt and create confusion, for me the purpose of Blair McDougall, Alistair Darling and the three BRITISH UNIONIST Parties was to lie, instill fear, and talk shit over and over again supported by the BRITISH UNIONIST media, and the really guilty party as we know was BBC Scotlandshire.

Iain talks about people’s need for more information on currency, tax, the EU, how the various institutions in an independent Scotland might look, the border with the rest of the UK, trade with England etc etc. Peter, from his own experience of talking to people, questions the claim that people need more information, Peter points out that the media’s job is to inform, that we should be encouraging engagement and participation as a counter to the British state’s efforts to promote alienation and detachment. All true and I accept that, but I would like to put a slightly different slant from my own conversations with people.

I have found that many people are clearly YES or NO, their reasons differ for their opinion on their choice of course, but have pretty much made up their mind. From the many NO voters I have spoken to they are Brit Nats end of. For them Scotland is an inconvenience, and they would have preferred Scotland to have just become England, or be called Britain, and the name be a name in history, remembered and quickly forgotten. These people rarely question the established order, have accepted through generations that to be Scottish is to be embarrassed, to be ashamed of it, Scotland is shite to them and always will be. The Scottish Cringe in all it’s glory and discussed very well by Wee Ginger Dug in the latest issue of the IScot Magazine. I have spoken to people who say that they just don’t like politics, no matter how much you explain to them that politics affects every part of their lives, they are not interested and are too busy watching Strictly Come Dancing and talking about celebrity shit and their pals behind their backs. These people can’t be bothered to find out information unless it’s what the days special is at Pizza Hut and what time Coronation Street is on and who their pal shagged at the weekend, behind their partners back. There is also some people who are just afraid, afraid of losing what little they have, afraid of their own shadow, this fear paralyzes them and they are the cannon fodder of Better Together and I find that talking to them sucks the life out of me.

Now the sane part of me accepts that we need to engage people in the debate, challenge the Unionists at every turn, questions the scumbag politicians in the three Tory Parties and their pals in the media, my rational brain sees that and understands that. But then there is that other part of me that is so f sick of the stupidity of many people who can’t see the truth around them, the lazy people who can’t get off their arse from watching Strictly to actually take an interest in their communities, their country and the people around them, and the ones afraid of their own shadow and who swallow every bit of bullshit fed to them and ask for more please.

All of these NO voters wear me down and suck the hope from me, I sometimes think that when we are an independent country we are stuck with these people and they will do their level best to drag us down by their laziness, their stupidity, their fear and their bullshit. For me there is no hope for those people and the sad reality is they will drag us all down and the scumbags in the Unionist Parties, who would not pee on us if we were on fire will win again.

I’m not giving up hope though and will keep fighting, at least I can go down with my head held high while the NO sheep watch strictly, eat pizza and get more blissfully ignorant by the day. Peter and YES have more faith in the people who share our land than I do that’s for sure.

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