They Have Been Remaindered

Ah. The wailing and gnashing of teeth by the political classes is music to my ears.

It’s not the economy, the price of gas, or war in the Middle East that has working- and middle-class people from Bangor, Maine to Bangor, Wales mad as hell. It’s immigration. They’re fed up being forced to accept unlimited numbers of migrants and refugees from cultures that in many cases don’t share Western democratic values. They’ve had it with the internationalist coalition of elite journalists, establishment politicians, and financial grandees telling them that if they oppose the principles of open borders and centralized decision-making, they are no better than white-sheet-wearing racists.

Whether in West Virginia or the West Midlands, people see and feel their culture changing, and see their leaders taking away their right to slow or blunt those changes. Brexit is one response. Donald Trump is another. It may be a backlash, it may be reactionary, but it’s a legitimate political expression of exhaustion, anger, and powerlessness.

Good times.


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3 responses to “They Have Been Remaindered”

  1. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    fly over space has stuck back in u.k. and the elite the media and the banksters say how dare you vote against our best interests instead of your own. your job is to suffer!

  2. Simon Avatar

    Ya know Captain – if you could learn something about economics and incentives you would make a tolerable libertarian.

  3. Kathy Kinsley Avatar
    Kathy Kinsley

    Pass the popcorn.

    @captain – you got it. And a lot of us are tired of suffering from the edicts of both the right and left.