Posted on 06/24/2016 11:59:25 PM PDT by sockmonkey
There's panic in the skyscrapers. A popular revolution against globalism is underway, and Britain has struck the first blow.
To the dismay of political, financial, and media elites, the country has chosen to put identity and sovereignty above a plus-one-or-minus-one change in GDP, and vote to leave the hated European Union. As with the USSR, the attempt to superimpose a manufactured civic identity over proud nation-states with rich and complex histories has run against the grain of human nature. The elites, so wrapped up in statecraft and economics, never paused to consider basic human psychology.
It’s not just Britain, you see. The revolution against globalism is, well, global. Britain may be leading the charge, but insurgents and rebels from D.C to Berlin are also hard at work tormenting their elitist overlords. Fired up by Britain’s example, eurosceptics across the continent are now demanding their own referendums. It’s a Berlin Wall moment.
The unelectable and unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels must be pissing themselves right now. They are losing one of the biggest crutches for a fragile alliance of countries that can’t pay their bills. (Fortunately, they still have the power to unilaterally grant themselves a monthly budget of 2,000 euros for trouser cleaning.)
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I find it astounding that a union of European states can’t control their own spending, all the while the US taxpayer having shouldered the burden of supplying the funds necessary to ensure their security for decades.
Remember, Thatcher was elected PM before Reagan was elected President.
unfortunately, 50 US states cannot control our own spending, either
but it is true that we defend Europe and much of the world, when we are not letting our little naval boats be captured by the Iranian terrorists....
Milo is on fire lately.
Excellent read.
Tired of having everything that generations worked hard for being redistributed?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UTMxfAkxfQ0
“The regulated man wakes from his regulated sleep to start his regulated day.”
We conservatives love to blame Barack Obama for turning Brits to vote against the European union, but we much better might thank Angela Merkel for it was she who in a mindless spasm of political correctness invited the whole world into the whole of Europe. Oddly, Britain had less to lose than other countries because it had a certain insulation from the open borders of the whole European Union and it had retained its own currency. But Angela Merkel's diktat in effect robbed every European of a voice in shaping his own cultural, economic, political destiny. In short, her open borders policy robbed every soul in the European Union of liberty.
The English have withstood continental threats successfully since shortly after 1066 coming from the Spanish, the French, the Germans, and the Russians. They have earned their reputation as the Mother of Parliaments and they have led the way in defining liberty as an individual matter. It is no accident that England gave us John Locke. So it is not surprising that ordinary Britons reverted to character and stood for liberty and sovereignty and stood against an insidious threat perhaps more dangerous for its insidiousness than an armada, a Napoleon, a Hitler, or Karl Marx.
The point of open immigration, of course, is essentially diabolical. It serves not just a world utopian vision of open borders and the withering away of the state by the imposition of one Über state, it keeps leftists in power and assures the ultimate destruction of a culture which reveres liberty and which understands viscerally, if not cognitively, that liberty and sovereignty are inextricably connected.
Small wonder Barack Obama as one of his first acts as President of the United States rankly insulted the English people and their exceptional heritage by returning the bust of Winston Churchill, he knew an enemy people when he saw them.
Despite two generations of waves of alien cultures immigrating into Britain, there was evidently enough left of this stubborn English-Speaking People to summon up a faithful respect to their unquestionably unique heritage. This is hardly a populist heritage, it is a constitutional heritage, a constitutional heritage running back 1000 years but without a written document which we Americans rightly boast of. This was not an aggressive populist demonstration, rather it was an example of decent people asserting their claim to representative democracy against a grand scheme cynically calculated by leftists who despise representative democracy to destroy a government system because it destroys its culture. It was hardly a populist economic revolt, indeed I'm sure many Brits who voted against the European Union did so with the assumption that they would pay some degree of economic cost to retain their liberty. They are all the more to be admired for it.
We should honor the British People for their profound choice as an example of representative democracy and not confuse it with a paroxysm of populism.
The victory in Britain does not certify a victory for Trump in America anymore than a thermometer causes a fever but the result in Britain, coming as it does in the wake of Trump's remarks and paralleling as it does Trump's effective campaign against unrestrained and dangerous immigration, tells us that the fever for liberty in Britain might well exist in American. The irony would be delicious, we conservatives have so often watched in despair as one European socialist nostrum after another (think Obama care) have been inflicted on America. Now we are perhaps beginning to see principles of conservatism awakening the conscience of a Great People.
A) I feel sorry for Greece because look at what happened to them thanks to Merkel with the migrant crisis.
B) I think this barely begins to scratch the surface of the condescension. You’ve got to figure that these are the same people who have been exporting “pop culture” that is routinely ridiculed (Miley Cyrus) and rebelled against (hipsters) in the culture that purportedly “produced” it. This crap is then piped all over the world as “our” brand...
I disagree with this statement. The first blow was struck when Donald Trump beat the entire field of GOP establishment candidates who were put up by the big-government globalists who run Washington, D.C.
I'm not even a big fan of Trump, and I realize that.
Brilliant!
From the article:
“...As with the USSR, the attempt to superimpose a manufactured civic identity over proud nation-states with rich and complex histories has run against the grain of human nature. ...”
Brexit and Trump stand in opposition to the North America Union .
Europe might kick them out.
Good one Nate. A stick in the eye of the globalist so tyrants.
We’re naive if we think the liberal elite that infect and manage every branch of government and the media in the West are going to go down easy. These anti-democracy overlords will fight viciously every inch of the way against any populist attempts to wrench power away from them and forestall their dreamed-of Pagan Utopia. It’s their world view, and they’ll pursue the power to maintain it by hook or by crook.
I wonder what Greeks are going to say to those backstabbing pols now.
This is one of the things causing me to think that the UK needs to beware. Even caving into their demands isn’t enough to prevent them from behaving spitefully and stupidly.
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