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When fear wins: Brexit, the vicious cautionary tale
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 24, 2016 | Mark Morford

Posted on 06/24/2016 5:50:49 PM PDT by artichokegrower

This is what happens when you enflame and provoke to the point of vicious irrationality. This is what happens when you make vague and heartless, crass, openly racist, fear-based, hyper-jingoistic promises that are impossible to deliver and will actually only make things far, far worse. And quickly.

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To: artichokegrower

The old respect the US military whereas the young do not. The old remember.


21 posted on 06/24/2016 6:18:15 PM PDT by mykroar (Democrats in 2016: The party of genitalia, real or imagined.)
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To: artichokegrower

No, it could not just be that the British do not like the diktats that they have been getting from Brussels.


22 posted on 06/24/2016 6:20:32 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: x1stcav
I was looking for a barf alert until I saw the author. Morford is a guaranteed barf alert.

Morford - from the Anglo-Saxon "Mo" meaning attention or warning and "Rford" originally "rrrfoooordg" from the result of drinking too much cheap mead.

"Morford" signs can still be seen at the entrances of some British alehouses warning patrons that the floor might be slippery.

23 posted on 06/24/2016 6:21:29 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (An orange jumpsuit is the new black pantsuit.)
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To: artichokegrower

Mark Morford covering Toto: “As soon as forever is through, I’ll be over EU.”


24 posted on 06/24/2016 6:23:07 PM PDT by Rastus (#NeverHillary #AlwaysTrump)
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To: artichokegrower

The swine on the left hate it when a few slaves escape the plantation.


25 posted on 06/24/2016 6:23:36 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: artichokegrower

Liberals continue to mistake anger and disgust with fear, to their own detriment.


26 posted on 06/24/2016 6:31:24 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They are doubling down on the hate/bigotry/racism thing.
Going after it full throttle.
Expect the same thing here.


27 posted on 06/24/2016 6:32:51 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: artichokegrower

Mark Morford again?

I thought that old fudge packer had died from anal cancer or something.


28 posted on 06/24/2016 6:43:53 PM PDT by mkjessup (Hillary Rotten Criminal is a f--king murdering sociopath. You want that in the Oval Office?)
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To: artichokegrower

What dog does the old fool have in this hunt, anyway? Just wants the whole of the world to be under the collective thumb of a few? What a wonderful world the left dream of....


29 posted on 06/24/2016 6:48:04 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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Translation:

If you don’t want to conform to bureaucratic masters ensconced safely behind tall fences and armed guards in some far off location, you’re a racist xenophobe.

If you want to be left alone to live your life as you see fit, as opposed to how these same overlords believe you should live, you’re a hate filled bigot.

Mark


30 posted on 06/24/2016 6:48:13 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: x1stcav

Who is Morford? Never heard of him. Related to the Rev. Richard Morford of the Communist Party USA?


31 posted on 06/24/2016 6:50:47 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: artichokegrower

Wow, what a bunch of over the top flailing.

Just another bit of evidence that the Brits did the sensible thing.


32 posted on 06/24/2016 6:54:33 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: artichokegrower

Some would rather that memory fade.


33 posted on 06/24/2016 6:59:36 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: txrefugee
I thought he was dead...

He didn't say much in this article to indicate he wasn't brain dead.

34 posted on 06/24/2016 7:04:21 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: artichokegrower

Re: vague

Kate Stainle is not vague in any sense of the word.


35 posted on 06/24/2016 7:14:01 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Publius

21 years ago, I started my first job in Silicon Valley. Every day, someone left the San Francisco Chronicle in the lunch room.
I called their editorial section “the other funny pages.”
Except for Debra Saunders. I still read her columns.


36 posted on 06/24/2016 7:52:46 PM PDT by JeffChrz (2016--time for the rest of the country to stop being stupid.)
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To: artichokegrower

Miss Morford is clutching her pearls!


37 posted on 06/24/2016 8:01:42 PM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: artichokegrower

Today the EU; tomorrow the UN.


38 posted on 06/24/2016 8:07:17 PM PDT by DPMD (o)
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To: John 3_19-21
There's never a wrong time to post a link to a great Rush song. Here's one relevant to this side of the pond.

Beneath the noble bird; Between the proudest words; Behind the beauty, cracks appear...

Kush

39 posted on 06/24/2016 8:13:27 PM PDT by Kush (The Original Lousy Freeper Troll, That's Me.)
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To: artichokegrower
This is what happens when you enflame and provoke to the point of vicious irrationality.

LOL! That description most aptly applies to the relentless, overwhelming campaign of agitprop that the British people were bombarded with 24 hours a day by the scumbag, elitist, globalist anti-Brexit crowd.

Every media & government outlet (but I repeat myself), every celebrity, politician, or any other influential globalist was running around hysterically trying to characterize Brexit supporters as "racist", "xenophobes", etc.

That was what was inflammatory. That was what was what provoked voters. That was what was vicious and hateful.

Thus, and historically, despite the unprecedented effort to crush the "Brexit" movement, a backlash developed which couldn't even be overcome with electoral fraud, and the British citizenry b---h slapped the globalists down hard.

It was, I believe, also a strong indicator of the reality of the movement which is brewing over here in America as well.

And pejoratives such as "racist" and "xenophobe" aren't going to be effective this time around. Everyone knows that's a crock of sh!t.

Vote Trump!

40 posted on 06/24/2016 8:23:34 PM PDT by sargon (George Will is a RINO compromiser that devolved the GOP to the Uni-party leadership we have today.)
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