Source: Tony Blair Says Britain Should Rise Up Against Brexit – NBC News
“The people voted without the knowledge of the terms of Brexit,” the former British leader told a pro-European campaign group.
Translation: the people were too dumb to vote for the outcome that we wanted. This seems to be the sentiment very much in play in the aftermath of the U.S. elections, as the organized wailing continues like an Aretha Franklin rendition of the national anthem.
I’m unconvinced that you will find in the articles of democratic governments anywhere, such a thing as a ‘do over’ clause. The basis of any democracy is that the masses, unwashed or not, have the opportunity to have their voices heard via an election process that occurs on a regular basis. The simple reasoning for this accepted mechanism is so that scoundrels and incompetents can be removed from office without resorting to pitchforks and torches.
The idea that a single person or cabal of persons are better equipped to handle the direction of a nation’s affairs has been rejected with the advance of history. With the possible exception of Singapore’s Lee Kwan Yu, autocratic ruling monarchies are failures and have not been the preferred political model for successful democracies. Of course, that doesn’t mean that groups don’t try to perpetuate themselves through other means.
The enlistment of a supportive media is the main tool used by those who would like to continue with their allotted but expired time in power. This of course is a perversion of process because an independent media is supposed to hold office holders to account, not cheerlead for them when the voters reject them.
In the first world, there are no do-overs. There are long accepted methods of democratic political expression allowing the masses to have their say. The malcontents just can’t accept that.
Source: Fear of immigration drove the leave victory – not immigration itself | Politics | The Guardian
An American politician once remarked that “elections have consequences” in the aftermath of a vote that swept his party into office. In the wake of the shocking Brexit vote, apparently the losing side refuses to accept that same wisdom and are instead insisting on the possible errors surrounding the vote; the stupidity of the constituents responsible for the vote and that maybe they should have a do-over as they might do in primary school. Hey, I wish the Seattle Seahawks could have a do-over too in the infamous goal line play in Superbowl XLIX a few years ago!
The rhetoric espoused by such objective rags as The Guardian is reminiscent of the characterization of conservatives by the same politician referenced earlier as “scared people clinging to their guns and bibles” from a few years ago in the American elections. As far as I know, nobody loses an election gracefully, there’s always blame and acrimony by the losing side. The alternative is to just have some wise people make all the decisions for everyone; for instance, Mao Tse Tung or Kim Jong Un. Why waste time, effort and money on an exercise that the plain folk don’t really understand?
In the US, it seems to be going that way as the percentage of eligible voters has been on a steady decline for years. The 2012 US elections showed that just over half of eligible voters went to the trouble to cast a ballot. The recent Brexit vote by contrast, attracted fully 72% of eligible voters in the UK to voice their opinions on the direction of the nation. When you get that kind of turnout, it means people feel pretty strongly about what’s at stake. Considering that the majority of the funds spent, the overwhelming popular entertainment and media types and international ‘statesmen’ were all pushing for the stay vote, the leave vote says volumes about the disconnect between the policy elites and the average voter. How ironic that the main impetus for the American revolution from the Brits in 1776 was because of lack of representation by the settlers to the dictates of their British overlords. Centuries later, the Brits reject the policy fiats of a remote Euro authority and vote to retain their own autonomy.
We suspect that this may be the first in a series of uprisings by the great quiet majority of people in many nations rejecting the regimes of thought imposed upon them by the unholy triangle of elites, business oligarchs and media. As we’ve said in the past, even if one did not know the intricate aspects of a major issue, all they’d need to do is consider who was on either side of it. If the usual progressive mouthpieces are for it, then the correct position is to be against it. We couldn’t possibly list the roster of the usual suspects but they do coincidently appear on many tabloid magazines and usually will have both upstairs and downstairs maids. Another hint, they all believe in global warming, rampant racism and collectivism.
It will become obvious (hopefully) over the next while that the opinions of these people have been given a voice way beyond any link to validity and that the plain folk are catching on to this. Not everyone has the luxury of living in a make believe world.