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No, still angry. Actually make that furious.
This article sums it up very well.
There is a lot of talk about the rich/poor divide.
Almost worse is the young/old divide:
Seventy-five percent of voters 24 and younger were against the Brexit, and for remaining in the European Union. British voters 49 and younger also favored the Remain option, according to polls conducted before the vote.
A poll taken before election day showed that 34 percent of pensioners backed Remain, and 59 percent backed the Brexit.
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“This decision was made by an aging population who has spent decades reaping the many benefits of the EU. These people have voted for a future that is not their own,” wrote university student Alana Chen in a Facebook post. “They will not be here to feel the full effects of the devastation they have caused with their votes. It’s us, the student generation that now have to live with something we voted against. Tell me how that’s fair?! Our country is crumbling and we’re completely helpless to stop it. Utterly devastating.”
Political journalist Nicholas Barret wrote in a now-viral reaction to the vote: “The younger generation has lost the right to live and work in 27 other countries. We will never know the full extent of the lost opportunities, friendships, marriages and experiences we will be denied. Freedom of movement was taken away by our parents, uncles, and grandparents in a parting blow to a generation that was already drowning in the debts of our predecessors.”
LITERALLY the first thing I did this morning when I found out that Leave had won, was to email my mother to talk to her brother who is a retired lawyer to find out how (and if) we can get dual citizenship for our girls. I don't want them to miss out.
And it both breaks my heart, and makes me utterly furious, that this is what the reality is. We're lucky, we have options, but so many others don't.
On the upside, we can do whatever we want. Let's put Farage in the stocks. Forever. I think throwing rotten tomatoes at him will be a very good way for people to work out their anger. We can add others too.
There is a lot of talk about the rich/poor divide.
Almost worse is the young/old divide:
Seventy-five percent of voters 24 and younger were against the Brexit, and for remaining in the European Union. British voters 49 and younger also favored the Remain option, according to polls conducted before the vote.
A poll taken before election day showed that 34 percent of pensioners backed Remain, and 59 percent backed the Brexit.
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“This decision was made by an aging population who has spent decades reaping the many benefits of the EU. These people have voted for a future that is not their own,” wrote university student Alana Chen in a Facebook post. “They will not be here to feel the full effects of the devastation they have caused with their votes. It’s us, the student generation that now have to live with something we voted against. Tell me how that’s fair?! Our country is crumbling and we’re completely helpless to stop it. Utterly devastating.”
Political journalist Nicholas Barret wrote in a now-viral reaction to the vote: “The younger generation has lost the right to live and work in 27 other countries. We will never know the full extent of the lost opportunities, friendships, marriages and experiences we will be denied. Freedom of movement was taken away by our parents, uncles, and grandparents in a parting blow to a generation that was already drowning in the debts of our predecessors.”
LITERALLY the first thing I did this morning when I found out that Leave had won, was to email my mother to talk to her brother who is a retired lawyer to find out how (and if) we can get dual citizenship for our girls. I don't want them to miss out.
And it both breaks my heart, and makes me utterly furious, that this is what the reality is. We're lucky, we have options, but so many others don't.
On the upside, we can do whatever we want. Let's put Farage in the stocks. Forever. I think throwing rotten tomatoes at him will be a very good way for people to work out their anger. We can add others too.
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