Posted on 06/24/2016 11:29:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On August the 21st, 1858 Abraham Lincoln said:
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.
Donald Trump and the pro-Brexit politicians such as Boris Johnson have benefitted from Lincoln’s assertion. Others haven’t learned from it. Some even insist on addressing public sentiment from a rational perspective. They throw facts and arguments at the people, thinking they can change public mood with information. Public sentiment is not rational, it’s emotional. I hate to point out the obvious but after all, it is a sentiment. Or does anyone think with their heart and feel with their mind? Can one easily think one’s way out of sentiments of defeat, impotence, anxiety or fear?
Here we are, wondering how Trump gained millions of supporters or why the pro-Brexit politicians won, since in both cases their arguments don’t make sense and there is a battery of logical reasons, facts and examples that clearly contradict them? Well, again, it’s not rational, it’s emotional.
In Britain, the English (not the Scottish or the Irish, the English) have been closet anti-Europeans since the creation of the EU. No surprises there. They were never very convinced about the Schengen Treaty to allow the free transit of people so they stayed out of it. They were skeptical about the Euro so they kept the Pound. And then there are the stereotypes and so on. They see themselves as the heart and soul of Britain, the Great Britain. They were an empire but their sentiment is that they still are and so they feel uncomfortable sharing sovereignty with Brussels or being part of the EU because that doesn’t fit their sentiment....
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What a load of Barbara Streisand! It wasn’t just sentiment. It was hightly logical
There are many logical reasons to support Trump, and none to support Hillary.
Statements such as this made by leftists who reflexively base every decision on emotion just confirm my suspicion about leftists. That is, that their brains are miswired and the logic circuits are crossed. So that the more logical something is, the more it befuddles them. For example, they would feel that the simple statement that 2+2=4 is bewildering but the assertion that 2+2 is a sign of white privilege is completely factual.
Was there sentiment? Yes, without a smidgen of doubt. Was it the sole factor for victory? No, also beyond a smidgen of doubt. If you discount the various ‘ism’s that the intelligentsia so loathes (emotion you know!), there remains the ‘facts on the ground’ that gave the final push over the top.
The EU was not designed, it evolved from a trade group, the post-war trading combine that started with coal and evolved into the Common Market. After two utterly devastating wars in Europe, anything that would reduce tensions was a good thing. Thus the EU grew out of a quasi-governmental organization staffed by (surprise) government-type bureaucrats.
Now bureaucratic organizations follow the organic rule of life, grow or die. The EU supposedly has a restraint upon the rule-making bureaucrats in the form of the European Union Parliament (EUP). At the present it has 700 or so members and is an impossibly unwieldy body. While the President of the EUP has a degree of executive power, in fact it is more ceremonial than real.
So you end up with the ‘Mandarins’ of Brussels handing out their mandates (regulations), trying to regulate Europe into a homogenous culture and body of laws. An example of what has made England MAD shows how the minor things can make a big hate.
England loves its pubs and beer. The standard serving has been a pint for many years. A pint is not part of the EU standards, was ‘allowable’ for a time after Great Britain’s entry, but started being forced out about 10 years ago. The same thing has happened to fresh produce being legally required to be sold by metric weight rather than traditional. Vendors have been fined even when both measurements are used as Brussels wants no other system! Conformity to one can seem to be a straight-jacket to another.
Now, with BREXIT a reality, it will be instructive to see if the EU regulatory machine pull-in its horns and tries to make nice in hopes that this storm will blow over. The problem is that, without dynamite, you can’t teach a pig new tricks! The mindset is set in concrete and without whole-sale changes, the EU will remain a Mandarin regulatory government and that is what BREXIT revolted against in whatever portion that constitutes the non-emotional reasoning!
I posted the first comment over at HuffPo.
Give it a like, and give the libtards fits.
“It’s simple. The Brits have voted against their voluntary self-extinction via open borders and uncontrolled immigration from regions where the people adhere to a 7th-century totalitarian religious-military-political system, where gays are murdered and rape victims are stoned to death.”
Yeah a 70/30 split share, with their interests controlled by unelected politicians who had zero accountability to the English people who consistently overrode the wishes of the Brits. Yeah they still voted for their leaders, but their leaders had no power to do the bidding of their citizens. Thus they had no real sovereignty at all.
Huff-Puffians are also notorious Indignitarians. So we’ll have to see how long your post remains ;’}
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