Posted on 01/19/2019 9:15:25 AM PST by rktman
It was no coincidence that Donald Trump scheduled a trip to Britain to promote one of his golf courses in Scotland, on June 23, 2016. That was the day of the Brexit referendum in which 52 percent of the electorate --17.4 million voters, more than any party has ever won in a general election -- voted for the UK to leave the European Union.
Candidate Trump's earlier endorsement of Brexit was criticized by elevated opinion as an unfriendly interference in another nation's internal affairs, although few, if any, had similarly criticized then-President Barack Obama for having urged Britons to vote "remain" and threatened that if they were to vote "leave," they would go to "the back of the queue" in seeking a free trade deal with the United States.
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No!
Not as long as it threatens their “elite” agenda.
Will Elites Ever Respect Voters’ Decisions on Brexit and Trump?>>>>>
No.
And these elites have to change or be run out.They become patriots or out with them!
We in the USA used to run them out on fence rails after tarring and feathering them. As a matter of fact, Vermont’s Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys used to be especially good at that.
“Elite” is something earned, where have they earned this “elite” status? But, maybe they are “elite” at stealing the labor and property of others.
Stolen labor used to be called slavery... but now is “economic justice” and “fairness”.
Barone states regarding the border wall, “which he negligently failed for two years to obtain from the Republican-majority Congress.”
Aren’t 60 votes in the Senate required to pass appropriations bills? If yes then having a mere majority is not enough.
If I remember correctly, a mere majority is how a democracy runs. We aren’t.
Will voters give up the “freebees” stolen for them by the “elites”?
Don’t hold your breath.
Elite city folks may as well live on another planet.
I wouldn't call such folks "elites" so much as "synthetics."
In the same way that money permits a person to distance himself from reality, city living does the same.
Think about the world inhabited by farmers compared to the world inhabited by a city doctor, lawyer, accountant, nurse, or clerk. The city dwellers live in an artificially contrived world in which the common sense (and values) of a small town or rural person is rendered obsolete.
That's the general idea.
City living insulates folks from the hardships of small town and rural living. And it gives them license to live untethered from the values that make sense of small town life.
As an aside, let me add that there are many people in the cities who are not "elite" or "synthetic"...they are the men and women in the street. The construction workers, plumbers, factory workers, truck drivers, etc. Trump voter's.
I know this because after a career in the big city, I returned to the small town in which I was born and raised.
The bottom line though is that you can live a life that ignores reality, but you cannot live a life that can escape the consequences of ignoring reality.
Bottom line: The so-called elites hate the reality they are trying to escape, but they are also fascinated by it.
The salvation of our country and our world rests with the "real" people in the heartland and in the cities...not with the elites.
“If I remember correctly, a mere majority is how a democracy runs. We aren’t”
No issues here, I realize that the US is a constitutional republic. My issue with barone and others who have been bitching and moaning that Trump didn’t bother to get “his” border wall when he had majorities in both houses of congress is that there were not enough votes in the senate to pass an appropriation bill that included proper border security, including a border wall.
Some folks understand how it works. Others, not so much. I was frustrated at the lack of action for the first two years. I’ll probably be less frustrated for the next two since it’ll most likely be denying napa nan and her commie pals what they want.
Elites—respect voters? Oh,come now!
No, and they will never voluntarily give up the privileges that such status confers on them. Like our freedom, control of our destiny will have to be TAKEN from those who largely control society.
We are at or near such an inflection point - as we were at the depths of the Great Depression. FDR, for as much as I despise what he did, at least recognized that some serious reforms were necessary so that ordinary people would realistically believe that they or their kids had an opportunity for upward social mobility. Again, I disagree strongly with many of the measures, and even the attitude that had about top-down control, but he did save us from an outright Leninist takeover by buying us some measure of breathing room (in terms of public confidence only - his economic policies were a DISASTER). WW 2 pushed all those problems aside, and left most of the non-US industrial capacity in ruins, so we enjoyed unparalleled prosperity for a full generation afterwards.
Today, there is such a high level of debt everywhere, and such a thirst for (the illusion of) permanent power, that IMHO only a violent sweeping away of the old order will suffice to actually change things. Lest anyone think that I look forward to this, it isn’t so. My family suffered immensely when the old order was destroyed in Russia 100 years ago, and they were assuredly not among the elites. Such conflict always gets out of control and devastates huge numbers of people.
Funny stuff huh?
Elites? More like narcissistic snobs...and the answer is NO...the party of ’tolerance’ doesn’t tolerate any other view than their own....
They were 8 years away from a corrupt dictatorship in the U.S. Trump blew that up and they will never forgive him.
The mistake is giving the elites the choice as to whether to respect decisions on Brexit and Trump.
No.
The Founding Fathers felt the same way.
Numerous quotes about American being good because it was made up of farmers and that it would lose its soul if that were ever lost.
“Will Elites Ever Respect Voters’ Decisions on Brexit and Trump?”
Yes they will after you threaten their mercenary armed guards. Once these mercenaries realize they can’t protect their property and families while also protecting the elites, the game changes drastically.
We saw that during the 1992 LA riots when all the cops abandoned their sworn oath to protect the city and instead drove their squad cars home to protect their property and families.
Lots of patriots missed this obvious lesson on how to effectively take down elitists. Remove the elitists’ muscle and take down the elitists.
We also saw that lesson in spades when Khaddafi was taken out in Libya in 2011 - remove Khaddafi’s elite palace guard and then go kill him.
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