They ought to tone down the rhetoric if they had any sense

It works though. They control the media. Most of the normies I know in the city think the radical far-right is causing all sorts of problems and oppressing women, minorities, and the transgendered. Literally every act of political violence ever is blamed on white Republicans, incels, and The Proud Boys. These aren't dyed in the wool leftists but brainwashed NPCs who would believe a completely opposite set of facts if the Right were in control.

Read a news story last week about a uni student's union that had tried to pass a vegan menu through and lost the student vote for it. The "concession" speech from the SU was pretty much nothing but gaslighting and direct criticism of the students and how democracy was failing, which tbh sounds precisely how I remember a SU behaving drunk on power.

Edit, went and found the story. Of fucking course it's Edinburgh.

If Edinburgh's students are so far unconvinced that animal farming and fishing is wrecking our planet and would rather take the words of those with a vested interest in concealing the truth, then we will continue to work to change that