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It has become a truism that political campaigns based on fear are doomed to fail. Positive visions, hope and excitement are what we want, apparently. And there is some evidence to support this: Corbyn’s genuinely inspiring campaigning for what he has said and believed these last four (five?) decades, the increasingly desperate Remain campaign and, of course, May’s abysmal GE campaign, which wholly failed to explain why Corbyn’s choices and what they say about his character, judgment and, therefore, how he would govern would affect voters and in ways which resonated with them.
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There are now four arguments for everyone to the left of Ken Clarke to hold their noses and vote for a Corbyn government. #1 The Laxative argument. The country has clearly taken leave of it's senses and entered at least a few are of decline. We might as well get it over with sooner rather than later. #2 The Penal argument. Brexit is utterly beyond the normal rules of the game. The Tories need to be punished whatever the costs. #3 The Asthenic argument. The outcomes of the Corbyn fantasy world are prettier than the dystopian Brexit ones. And as that's now our choice we might as well pick pretty. #4 The Dice argument. That a Boris Brexit is such an awful prospect with ramifications for decades to come that gambling on a Corbyn government is actually the rationale thing to do.
So the risk in the terms CycleFree is talking about is this. The Tories' Brexit stokes intense fear in the other half of the electorate and the absurd story telling of Brexit validates Corbyn's hopeful post reality narrative as well.