Brexit Referendum Day

[Belsnickel]

(06-24-2016, 06:29 PM)THE Bigzoman Wrote: If the pound keeps depreciating, many of us could probably afford to go to the game?


I didn't expect the leave campaign to win.

Holy shit. Political polarization everywhere, nationalism, and an uncertain global economy?

Scary times. Scary times.

I saw comments from some that voted leave as a sort of protest vote and were now regretting it. Silly people.

This quote, though, speaks to what you say hre more than anything else.

Quote:Australia has had five prime ministers in five years, the poor yanks look as though they'll have to choose between two options both of which have more disapproval than approval, and the UK leaves the EU. It seems like a ridiculous amount of instability. One might even call it absurd.

But it's not surprising.

You can't feed a society exaggeration, hyperbole and propaganda for over a decade, and then claim surprise when people don't seem to be making rational decisions on the basis of well established truth.

There's a cost associated with not telling the truth. There's a cost associated with polarized, adversarial public discourse. There's a cost associated with media more concerned with profits than the public interest.

It is, apparently, time to pay the piper.