OH MY GOD let's get several things straight about Brexit

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76. But many perceive that they will be better off.

Perceptions are often "authentic" but utterly wrong. We notice that with other people's perceptions, of course.

We usually have the chance to form a decent society. But even in the US, given the chance to form a society, we are opting for coexistence of different societies (provided that some pay for coexistence to help others). Oddly, that's not promoting tolerance and coexistence, but making any advantage that one society has all the more salient and all the more cause for hate and resentment. The separatists have been winning and continue to win on the field, and all that many separatists seem to notice is that many spectators who weren't in the game before are now in the locker room suiting up.

If you want to have your cake and eat it, too, there are two possibilities. First, it doesn't happen because it can't. Second, you are content with reversing the order to "eat your cake and have it, too," which is basically saying you're content with having a handful of shit. They want the first and reject that it's impossible, but are outraged when they get the second.