Yeah, yeah... xenophobia, racism, nativism, know-nothingism, white this, demagogy that...
“It is, in other words, a victory of sovereignism at its most rancid; of nationalism at its most idiotic.”
Brexit according to leftists.
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I thought the approved term was “racism.”
I think if Trump wins the election in the US this fall, England and America will have, and will lead, a strong resurgence in both countries. Leading incidentally to stronger relations with our trading partners.
If however Hillary is victorious, the world will slip into the massive globalist mess, into which we have been rapidly descending for the entire last generation.
Go Trump.
What you want is good old fashioned American Globalism.
The kind that used to make the anti-Americans rage against Mickey Mouse( for real).
This effete snob only likes surrendering his nations sovereignty in the abstract. If a One-world, centralized government began enforcing policies that he disliked, the the “sovereignty of France” would be invoked as a bulwark against these policies. As it stands, he imagines a one-world government in the hands of those who think very much as he does. The oppression of national/cultural identities at the hands of globalists is quite simply a non-starter for the vast majority of people.
Only those who subscribe to the cult of “mankind” or the cult of the radical “individual” want to see secular socialism imposed on the world from the top down. And before the Libertarians chime in about how they abhor one world government, I can only mention my experience with the Libertarians whom I blog with (or whose blogs I read). They are all open borders, anti-nationalism, anti-group, socially liberal, and radically “free market”. They get bent out of shape when a collectivist economic policy is impose from the Feds, but if a socially liberal policy is imposed from the Feds, it’s a “defense of an individual liberty”.
Most of them find Trump to be more abhorrent than Hilary or Obama. It’s really made me rethink the Libertarian tendencies I’ve had over the past decade.
What a putrid pile of steaming offal this thing is.
Whatever. As I know all too well, the British media and political establishment are doing everything they can to nullify the Brexit vote. It’ll be a heck of a fight regardless.
The globalists didn’t expect this. They will do what they can to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Fortunately the tired old canard of right versus left is falling away and the reality of globalism versus freedom is taking it’s place.
So maybe now we can see it– this is what the preppers have been getting ready for.
The Utopian Globalists on the march.
All we need now is a Black Swan and a few convenient ‘compelling reasons’ and we’re all off to the Gulag.
Seig Heil, Angela!
“It is a victory of the hard right over the moderate right and of the radical over the liberal left. It is a victory of xenophobia in both camps, of long-simmering hate for the immigrant and of obsession with the enemy within.”
It’s wonderfull to be right and never have to argue. You get to simply call EVERYONE who disagrees with you EVIL.
“Levy is an eloquent, leftist, French philosopher and writer.”
Really? Gosh, I’d never guess!
The French will always be late and last.
Levy is simply projecting his own views and intolerance. The left are the biggest intolerant AH’s on the planet.
The leftist are tolerant as long as you agree with them or else be branded a hateful racist.
It’s difference between Individual Freedom and Right to pursuit happiness vs Globalism where a group of elite, tax exempt, diplomatic immunity, free from from civil and criminal lawsuits rules over the peasants.
The word “populism” is being used as a negative connotation against freedom loving individuals.
It’s difference between Freedom and Global Enslavement to the Central Branks
It’s difference between Freedom and Global Enslavement to the Central Banks
Insofar as Globalism is composed of illegal immigration, high levels of taxation, high levels of bureaucracy, the minimization of the nation state in favor of supra-national bodies, and a general unwillingness to defend Western Civilization against the demonic hordes of muslims, I oppose it.
But I like low taxes.
Their views were not exactly presented in a polite fashion IIRC - more like threats.