Brexit cont.

[elisi]

I received a letter from Lord Sugar today, asking me to vote Remain. This almost feels like rubbing salt in the wound, as I of course can't vote, being Danish. (Nevermind that I've lived here for 20 years. Btw I don't have any particular reason for not becoming a British citizen, except for being able to live here without any issues ever, because of being in the EU and never having £600-800 spare...)

Here are some thoughts from other European countries:

Dear Britain: Elena Ferrante, Slavoj Žižek and other European writers on Brexit

Instead of ranting, I give you Sir Patrick Stewart: What has the ECHR ever done for us?:

ETA:

This is one of the most accurate comments on the Brexit campaign I've seen pic.twitter.com/LYl6nSOUDk

— Tomas Hirst (@tomashirstecon) June 18, 2016

So depressing I can't even. And once people realise they've been lied to it'll be too late. :(

Comments

[elisi]

It's the one upside to the very, very, very long American elections - they get a good look at the candidates, and can see them react to all kinds of crisis.

So the Trump mania is... small enough, to presumably be contained. If it carries on like it is now, Hillary will win in a landslide. Whereas here... :(

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I'm that optimistic. Whether we're talking about Trump, or Putin, or Kjaersgaard, or Farage, the more people get a close-up of all these assholes being incompetent assholes, evil assholes, lying assholes, etc etc etc, the only thing that seems to change is that more people are willing to take them seriously. Even if Trump loses, he's brought back a LOT of political arguments that have no business being on the table in 2016.

That Guardian article about Jo Cox you posted yesterday put it well when they said that we're living in the age of "post-fact politics". Politicians have always lied, but at least they used to pretend that it mattered whether what they said was true or not. Now we're stuck with a bunch of populists whose only message is "Be afraid. Be very very afraid of everything, and I'll protect you."

[elisi]

Even if Trump loses, he's brought back a LOT of political arguments that have no business being on the table in 2016.
Sad, but true. Although I think it's been brewing - the dark underbelly to the Obama Hope & Optimism.

Now we're stuck with a bunch of populists whose only message is "Be afraid. Be very very afraid of everything, and I'll protect you."
The 'Others' are coming to take everything. Hi, 1930s...