And that is always an option, Andrew, moving abroad, though it would not change the situation in the UK itself.
I believe education and not any direct fight promotes the desired solutions better.
In the UK today, brainwashing does not occur through misinformation, but through not-talking about essential issues. The lack of proper discussion causes the issue to 'go away', not placed on the forefront of most people's mind as important.
Your article is a very good example of education.
There is a choice between taking on the fight, discovering who the enemy is, or deciding to promote knowledge, for instance, about the way a nation functions. Education can establish just as much change (and does so in a neutral manner) as going for the direct fight.
The political foundation of a nation is quite important in establishing the overall outcome (next to cultural and other influences). Going with education should in general not lead to a personally dangerous situation. Yet it depends on how you bring the information forward.
Nevertheless, moving abroad for a year to a nation with an inclusive democracy can help you understand what is wrong in the UK with its exclusive democracy.
It does not mean the inclusive nations do not have similar problems within their culture, yet the opportunity to discuss them in the open does minimize the issues. In the open, one can discuss and address the important issues better.
When an elite group is in control (mostly the usual two parties rule in the UK, so all other parties are not really empowered), then a fascist element can take hold across society, because it follows then just the limited groups’ leadership. There is then no clear embrace of sharing and a far greater emphasis on competition to get ahead oneself.
Here is an image of the UK in Europe. You can see that the UK provides a greater benefit for the elite than in most countries of Europe. At the same time, you can then also see how (international) investors would be attracted more to those nations that give more to the elite (i.e. these investors) than nations that share their economic wealth among more/all. By applying lower standards, the international investors flock to these nations like the UK.
That should trigger a visual in your mind of the stream of money of international investors and the competition that plays out among nations to attract that money.
By declaring the UK a perfect democracy while in reality the voting system contains fascist aspects of handing the full win to limited groups of people, the UK puts horse blinders on its own people, not handing the controls to their true majorities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
Yes, the USA is the worst of all rich nations. There are other worse nations, but they are poorer in general, just handing more of what is there to the elite. South-Africa, for instance, has diamonds and gold, in the hands of an elite. Bulgaria has lots of minerals.
The USA has a larger economy, but also a voting system where Blue and Red are more deeply engrained in the political reality than the Tories and Whigs in the UK. In the USA, third parties are truly muted politically, whereas the UK has a coalition government once every 100 years (so not much better than the USA, but indeed a little bit).
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Last point is to be careful, Andrew. I am not able to see how much anxiety you wrought in your career, antagonism. If possible, don't go (again) for the fight if that puts you at risk. Try to find words that tell the same you are telling by pointing to the causes of discrimination. As I hope I made visible, winner-take-all, first-past-the-post, is incorporated discrimination in the voting booth. It is fascist in essence because it mutes so many voices, making them unimportant, unheard, giving more to the elite than is the case in real democracies.
