Nice post, Sean, although you leave out that the present UK government and the US Republicans in fact have no desire to do good, merely to eliminate any opposition to the demands of capital/the ultra-rich (and in the US, religious nutters). They actively want to oppress the poor. In short they are evil and malign, and anybody who votes for them other than the ultra-rich is stupid, bigoted, or blinded by propaganda produced for the benefit of the rich by the rich who own the media.

None of which relates to the rampant racism evident in the way the largely white US police brutalise and kill a disproportionate number of black victims - and then spread lies about them. Or to the rampant authoritarianism evident in demands that everybody instantly obeys all police demands - whether lawful or not. I expect we will see some of the latter on Saturday in the anti-austerity demo in London (England).