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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36615028>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Scary as hell. A real victory for isolationism, xenophobia and, I think, neo-Fascism.
>>>>>>You can look at it that way, or you can ask why so many people are rejecting western establishments.
>>>>>
>>>>>Curious (legitimately curious), what do you mean by "rejecting western establishments"?
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>>>>I think that the dominant political parties, the EU, the World Bank, the IMF, et al have underestimated and/or ignored the increasing economic stresses felt by working people in western countries.
>>>>There are many reasons - automation, globalization, monetary policies, fiscal policies and the financial collapse- but to the person watching people fly around in private jets while he flips hamburgers, something is really wrong.
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>>>Its true
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>>>In London the more affluent areas voted remain while poorer (and whiter) areas voted leave
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>>Not surprising.
>>Those poor people are ignored or looked at with scorn by the establishments here too.
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>another factor is the divide between the young and old.
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>the young where (on the whole) in favour of remain.
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>a yougov poll
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>18-24: 75% Remain
>25-49: 56% Remain
>50-64: 44% Remain
>65+: 39% Remain
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>in my own family my children are very unhappy about the result and feel its another example of the older had it all generation screwing them.
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>my parents in law in their mid 80s where having a champagne celebration while my daughter was near tears.
This comment, I though, expressed the concerns pretty well:
" A quick note on the first three tragedies. Firstly, it was the working classes who voted for us to leave because they were economically disregarded, and it is they who will suffer the most in the short term. They have merely swapped one distant and unreachable elite for another.
Secondly, 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.
Thirdly and perhaps most significantly, we now live in a post-factual democracy. When the facts met the myths they were as useless as bullets bouncing off the bodies of aliens in a HG Wells novel. When Michael Gove said, ‘The British people are sick of experts,’ he was right. But can anybody tell me the last time a prevailing culture of anti-intellectualism has led to anything other than bigotry?"
Quoted here:
http://www.vox.com/2016/6/24/12023544/brexit-uk-young-votersTamar
