The first thing to note is that the European Union loses all referendums over proposals emanating from the EU or which concern EU authority. The unconditional defenders of the European project have to ask themselves why that is the case. But this is the first time that the question of remaining or leaving has been posed directly. And in my view the fact that one of the three big European countries has chosen to break away from the EU marks the end of the current European project. This result definitively reveals something we knew already, namely that this was a project built by and for elites, and which did not enjoy popular support.Emphasis added.
So, What's Up With That Brexit Vote?
Stathis Kouvelakis was a member of the Syriza central committee, a Greek political party. He was asked about Brexit.
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Democratic socialism was supposedly their replacement for religion and a free economy.
This is fun to watch.
Nigel Farage 20years ago you laughed at me, you are not laughing now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayojl7Op37A
A cage remains a cage, and a cage is unbearable to a human being in love with freedom.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/28/opinion/marine-le-pen-after-brexit-the-peoples-spring-is-inevitable.html?_r=1
..........Do we want an undemocratic authority ruling our lives, or would we rather regain control over our destiny? Brexit is, above all, a political issue. It’s about the free choice of a people deciding to govern itself. Even when it is touted by all the propaganda in the world, a cage remains a cage, and a cage is unbearable to a human being in love with freedom......
What's a cage, though? You are speaking metaphorically, but the metaphor cuts both ways:
1) It's a cage that you can't sell meat in pounds instead of kilos, and that some foreign power dares to tell you that you may not buy an electric tea kettle to brew your afternoon tea. After Brexit, you will be free to establish your own laws that govern your lives.
2) It's a cage that you can't move where you want and live where you want, such that after Brexit you will no longer be able to move to Germany or Italy or France or Sweden. You will be physically confined, which is also metaphorically like a cage.
Assenting to a larger state that allows greater freedom of movement makes a kind of sense. The problem with the EU is that its anti-democratic qualities eventually overwhelmed the genuine benefits it had to offer.
2) It's a cage that you can't move where you want and live where you want, such that after Brexit you will no longer be able to move to Germany or Italy or France or Sweden. You will be physically confined, which is also metaphorically like a cage.
Germany took in so many Muslims through Turkey, that it amounts to a culture replacement, population replacement via rape, and national invasion. The idea that freedom always leads to a virtuous higher existence beyond that of a cage, is erroneous.
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