In the end, as Lot's wife..

In the end, as with Lot's wife..

As the British elections results are reaffirming: Human nature remains 
in a characteristic glacier consistency for its yearning for the tangible 
trappings over the abstract hopes, even if the results end up similar 
to Lot’s wife, ‘Ado’/or the more contemporary ’Edith’ [with visions of 
the “Edith Bunker”’s iconic role]. Or like the crowds on the original 
‘Good Friday’, who voiced their support for the person of their credo, 
Barrabas. People will gravitate figuratively (and literally) to the 
familiar, which gives the least and more expedient path to their habits 
for comfort; than to regimens that are new and alien to their ways.

BoJo, aka Boris Johnson, flipped Labour strongholds 
  
away from the metropolitan areas, not because of his character, 
but for the more known consequences of his platform in contrast 
to Jeremy Corbin’s more abstract change to new institutional 
operations-no matter how platitudinously benevolent in the abstract.

I perceive the cultural demographics of Britain are similar to US 
demographics-Metro vs Rural

 . 

Thus, Bernie and Elizabeth are chancing that the momentum for 
structural change would be greater than the status quo resistance 
for the things that exist in a more augmented privileged priority
-similar to the past legacy narratives.

At the same time Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, who are presently 
dominating the moderate center, appeal to a return to some aesthetic 
of past normalcy. That also would seem to run counter to the partisan 
angst of both the agitated right and left. By electoral college 
demographics the Right is more diversely concentrated in more state 
than the metro-situated Left. 

On top of that, there are the apolitical, sociopaths as noted by the 
news reports of merchandise thefts at Home Depot that I can give
general, anecdotal, confirming knowledge of such occurrences at other ‘
Big Box’ stores by organized rings-going back over 10 years ago out in 
the Heartland country. These thieves see their theft

as part of the big box stores projected and expected loss of 
merchandise, plus that their nickel-and-dime larceny is not even 
a pin prick on the individuals or stores or its corporation’s bottom line. 
By the recent news reports, there are those who see the contrast 
between their state of “destitution” and the wealth of the stores as 
their green light to steal from the excess to deal with their 
deprivations of non-skilled, on-call labor (for such quick money). 
These operators do exist [by my direct knowledge] in white 
communities of low-wage, non-skilled labor. I would suspect that this 
demographic, no matter what race, would have little interest 
in either social change or its stasis, since they exist for whatever 
transactional exploitation they can accomplish. This group might be 
part of the numbers of those who not only do not and wouldn’t vote, 
since they have dropped out of the formal statistical matrix that is 
reported and bally-hooed by the establishment media.

as part of the big box stores projected and expected loss of 
merchandise, plus that their nickel-and-dime larceny is not even 
a pin prick in the individual stores or its corporation’s bottom line. 
By the recent news reports, there are those who see the contrast 
between their state of “destitution” and the wealth of the stores 
as their green light to steal from the excess to deal with their 
deprivations of non-skilled, on-call labor (for such quick money). 
These operators do exist [by my direct knowledge] in white 
communities of low-wage, non-skilled labor. I would suspect that 
this demographic, no matter what race, would have little interest in 
either social change or its stasis, since they exist for whatever 
transactional exploitation they can accomplish. This group might be
 part of the numbers of those who not only do not and wouldn’t vote, 
since they have dropped out of the formal statistical matrix that 
is reported and bally-hooed by the establishment media. 

In summary:

Though I’m sympathetic for what I see as the needed structural 
change, I am more a proponent of ‘Not making “better” the enemy of 
“good” ‘.