Jeremy Corbyn becomes Labour Leader in an election landslide
This is big. It is an impact what will resound in the United States.
What's so interesting about this upset victory is that money-influencing media power had virtually no impact on turning voters away from Jeremy Corbyn. Despite Rupert Murdock's British newspapers and talking media heads incessantly barking about what a disaster it would be to have Jeremy Corbyn become head of Labour (a general equivalent a Democratic front runner in the US,) the rank and file paid absolutely no attention to them, voting Corbyn in with an enormous mandate.
The socio-boffins that you see blathering away on TV seem unable to come to grips with the new reality. The non-internet media machine of the pre-paradigm shift is clueless and cannot comprehend that despite all the institutional propaganda, people have come to acknowledge the basic simple truth that the rich are getting way richer and more powerful at everybody else's' expense.
A generation of internet influence has moved the emphasis from the needs of the individual to the needs of the community. People are no longer staring passively into TV screens, they are interacting with their network of friends, influencing each other and forming opinions that are out of the shadow of conventional old-world media.
What will disturb the clueless media buffs even more is that this phenomenon is not relegated to a small island on the other side of the Atlantic; these are not distant stirrings, they are a force that is thundering through the United States. How else would socialist maverick like Bernie Sanders plow through the country, receiving unprecedented support for his run into the White House?
This is an era where having a Super-PAC fund is not an advantage; it is a severe liability, or where sucking up to the Koch brothers is a death-knell to your ambitions of climbing the ladder of power. Everyone knows that when you grasp this monied hand, you are beholden to interests other than those of the citizenry, and in large part that means the rich and powerful.
Voting citizens have reached a critical mass. They no longer get their information from the mouth piece of the talking heads or other outlets of the established media, they are shaping their opinions online, in an atmosphere of debate within their peer groups and friends.
We are in a new age.
