The Dangers of Pessimism

well I think the right-wing are trying to encourage people to lose your confidence in voting they say to people they're all the same and so on and they're trying to spread pessimism and pessimism is an instrument of the right because if can persuade people to be pessimistic they won't make the effort they won't try and if people don't try you'll never succeed so you have to treat pessimism not as an objective truth but as a deliberate policy designed to discourage people from exercising their rights to decide how we're governed
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you have to be careful about pessimism, pessisimism is deliberately designed to take away hope from people and if you take away hope from people then nothing will ever change
Tony Benn