Posted on 06/26/2016 7:52:21 PM PDT by Lorianne
There’s a delicious irony to Remainers’ branding of Leave voters as confused individuals who have simply made a desperate howling noise, whose anti-EU vote was a ‘howl of anger’ (Tim Farron) or a ‘howl of frustration’ (JK Rowling). Which is that if anyone’s been howling in recent days, it’s them, the top dogs of the Remain campaign. They are howling against the demos; raging against the people; fuming about a system that allows even that portly bloke at the end of your street who never darkened the door of a university to have a say on important political matters. That system we call democracy.
In all the years I’ve been writing about political stuff, I cannot remember a time when anti-democratic sentiment has been as strong as it is right now. No sooner had an awe-inspiring 17.5m people rebelled against the advice of virtually every wing of the establishment and said screw-you to the EU than politicos were calling into question the legitimacy of their democratic cry. Apparently the people were ill-informed, manipulated, in thrall to populist demagoguery, and the thing they want, this unravelling of the EU, is simply too mad and disruptive a course of action to contemplate. So let’s overturn the wishes of this dumb demos.
So it is that David Lammy has howled against the ‘madness’ of the vote. We can ‘bring this nightmare to an end through a vote in Parliament’, he said. That nightmare he’s talking about is the people having their say, the throng making a choice. The UN Special Representative for International Migration, Peter Sutherland, has also openly called for the crushing of the people’s will. British voters were hoodwinked by a ‘distortion of facts’, he says — because we’re that stupid — and ‘somehow this result must be overturned’. UN officials condemn African or Asian dictators who ride roughshod over the will of their peoples, yet seek to foment the same in Britain. Media commentary has dripped with contempt for the moronic people. ‘Some of the oldest and whitest people on the planet leapt at a chance to vote against the monsters in their heads’, howled a writer for Esquire. There’s much talk about the people being ‘manipulated’ by lies and misinformation, as if they’re lifeless putty in the hands of the likes of Farage. Some have gone so far as to twist the definition of democracy in an attempt to rubbish the people’s will. ‘The idea that somehow any decision reached anytime by majority rule is necessarily “democratic” is a perversion of the term’, says Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff. Sometimes, democracy means making sure the people ‘avoid making uninformed decisions with catastrophic consequences’, he says. So it can be democratic to thwart the majority’s wishes if we think they’re stupid. And they have the gall to talk about manipulation.
And make no mistake: it is their aim to thwart our will. They want to use the law or politicians’ clout to undermine the result. Alastair Campbell tweeted: ‘EU law allows customers to withdraw from contract if contract based on lies. LEAVE agenda riddled with them. Lawyers on the case.’ Nicola Sturgeon says she’ll veto the Brexit, which would be a blatant, borderline tyrannical misuse of her powers to stymie the views of the mass of society. History would not be kind to her.
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Yeah, Peter Jennings called it a “temper tantrum.”
The elites are so predictable.
The elitist establishment has no idea what fate they are tempting by even talking about pulling something like this.
Distortion... Like the shape of cucumbers dictated from Brussels of anyone violates... Of to jail. Those?
The totalitarian commies are just piddling in their shorts. They cannot stand what is coming in terms of freedom loving peoples taking back their countries and cleaning up their democratic governments. So far, so good.
100% control of Environment
100% control of Fishing
100% control of Farming
100% control of trade
This by a nation with the fourth largest economy in the world.
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If they can only be made to see a short-term buffeting to regain sovreignty.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,
starving hysterical naked ...
Exactly.
Notice that when “the people” agree with the elite ruling class, then they’re all “The people have spoken.” But when “the people” disagree with them, then “the people” are suddenly ignorant, misinformed, manipulated, uneducated, blah, blah, blah, and we need to thwart their wishes “for their own good” which is doublespeak for “for the good of the elite ruling class”.
Hmmm. Is that similar to how our states have lost control of so much to the ruling class in D.C.?
Inside every leftist is a totalitarian screaming to get out.
If things don’t go their way, they will crush us.
If things go their way, its a settled result we’re not allowed to overturn.
Either way, they win. Democracy is a Potemkin facade used to legitimize leftist tyranny.
yep, such people are unworthy of democratic power because they will abuse it whenever they dare and would eliminate opposition at the first opportunity.
Ginsberg’s theorem is a parody of the laws of thermodynamics in terms of a person playing a game. The quote was first attributed to the poet Allen Ginsberg in the 1975 issue of the Coevolition Quarterly[1]
he “theorem” is given as a restatement of the consequences of the first, second, and third laws of thermodynamics:[3][4][5][6]
You can’t win.
You can’t break even.
You can’t even get out of the game.
The Leaves have just proven Ginsberg’s theorem wrong.
We the people don't really control any of it any more. It is as you said, directly or indirectly they control it all and a whole lot more.
I could add to that list, will just put one: Immigration. It is 100% controlled by the DC ruling class. They want to control it all then hand it over to as yet unseen super powers.
Brexit and the end of international progressive inevitability
Reminds me of how many times Californians have used our ballot Proposition process to vote for something only to have the liberals sue in the 9th District Court and thwart our will. The vote of the people in California hasn’t meant anything in 30 years now.
Can’t let a bunch of white people decide anything. After all those miserable whites have the lowest crime rates and they invented the modern world. How dare they vote.
The worst part is the people have their votes annulled and they don’t even care.
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