Re: WC 150K Post Challenge - You Ready?!
I'm only 18, and I've witnessed that bad loop for at least three time now that I remember. Same incapable people getting elected year by year, doing same **** to people over and over again, and still people complain. Just like in Brexit case. Everyone is regreting and complaining now, where the hell were they when the call was being made? With their head in the sand, that's where.
I can't even think of how sick of the whole situation older people are. I'm afraid worse is yet about to happen. Speaking of my country, sadly, I have to say that I see absolutelly no future here. Demographics are just too complicated.
I saw a show last night on the Britexit and they interviewed mostly people on the exit side trying to sort out why the wanted it so badly.
It's come down to three reasons that I can tell.
1. Uncontrolled immigration. Most saw this as a big issue and all the negative aspects of it. Regardless how much immigrants add to the economy most focused on the negative impact, mostly pointing out the impact on services, which have little to do with immigrants or the EU but a lack of proper government.
2. Protest. Strangely at first thought a protest vote was a weird thing until I saw this show. What struck me was how few people had voted before this referendum and this is the first time a lot of people had even voted. The protest was that they felt they were being left behind. That a change was needed. That they weren't being herd by the establishment, the elite of society. So they felt this was the only way to make a statement. Regardless of the consequences. They wanted to shake things up. Of course their laziness of not being engaged before the referendum is why a lot of their communities are in the state they are.
3. Nostalgia. This mostly pegged on the older voters and for good reason. Lots of talk of how things were and an expectation of a return to that with the UK being 'independent' from the EU. Of course the EU had nothing to do with this, this is based on corporate greed, lack of investment and poor government. Nostalgia is the worst kind of thinking in my view and it's not realistic.
Though I can relate to the issues of uncontrolled immigration it wouldn't really be an issue if government would invest in services properly but we've had nothing but successive governments who've done nothing but cut staffing. So the strain has been greater than it need be.
The other two are poor choices but I can at least relate to the protest. However, leaving it to such a large decision and taking no action or interest prior to this is a sheer sign of ignorance of the highest order. Add in that they have clear misconceptions of the EU on top of that and this is why we got to where we are.
I guess we'll see what happens now.
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