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Showing Original Post only (View all)I am amazed - really quite amazed - at some of the Brexit opinions I am reading here on DU [View all]
In line with the new rules I will neither point out posts or posters, or even some of the drivel as that would connect it back to a post or poster.
People, do some research. See who backed the LEAVE vote. This wasn't about democracy or the will of the people. The people, it turns out, were far too ignorant to even know what they were voting for. They were sucked in by xenophobia, racism, and, as we hear in our own presidential campaign, taking their country back.
Here's the thing about "populism" . . . it is an easy sell. People who understand what the salesman is actually saying, and agree with it, will buy what's being sold. That's the good part and usually accounts for most of the sales. The bad part is that it is easy to sell the same product to the ignorant fucks who are too stupid or lazy to find out what the salesman is selling. Sell to enough ignorant fucks, add that to the informed buyers, and the product is sold enough to make a profit - or win a vote.
That's what happened with the Brexit vote. Too many lazy or ignorant fucks bought the right wing shit that was being sold. It was pure democracy at its very worst. The sort of democracy that brings demagogues and strongmen to power.
And if you think this was a vote against the elites, think again. Not all elites are made the same. One set of elites lost yesterday, but rest assured, a very different set of elites won. The losers were . . . . . guess who.
So please, do some research before you extoll the glory of the Brexit vote.
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