ONE LAST TIME: Brexit, for the VAST MAJORITY of Leave voters, was about xenophobia

[MADem]

220. A weird thing is happening on the far left, I fear.

Not the moderate left, but that tip of the left wing.

It's flapping so hard it's touching the tip of the right wing...!

I cannot imagine a genuine "leftist" being in favor of Brexit. A vote for Brexit is a vote for FEAR.

Of course, I can remember when people felt terrible on this very board for the dreadful pay and working conditions of the "foreigners" making Kathy Lee's line of clothing. They had empathy for these people and felt they should be paid a decent wage for the work they did. Nowadays, it seems that some take the attitude that "Those bums are taking JOBS that could be OURS!" Like Americans 'aspire' to be hunched over a sewing machine for ten hours a day....

I just don't understand some of these shifts and twists in POV, lately--they're troubling. When a tribal/clannish/protectionist attitude comes into the equation, there's cause for concern, I think.

I watch Trump with the sound down, and he looks so much like Mussolini (save that Mussolini was a more attractive man--not that he was any world beater) that it's scary.

I guess it's plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...but then, all those LEAVE voters won't have to worry about translating any of that French stuff anymore, now, will they (LOL).