Liberal Cosmopolitans Lash Out at the Shattering of Their Worldview

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Ian Tuttle:

If Brexit’s critics are right, the European Union should be glad to be rid of the United Kingdom.

In the wake of the U.K.’s decision to withdraw from the EU, the anti-Brexit crowd has leaped to explain the vote in stark terms. “The force that has been driving [‘Leave’ voters] is xenophobia,” wrote Vox’s Zack Beauchamp, and at Esquire Charles Pierce explained: “Some of the Oldest and Whitest people on the planet leapt at a chance to vote against the monsters in their heads.” The Guardian’s Joseph Harker mused: “It feels like a ‘First they came for the Poles’ moment.” And blogger Anil Dash managed to squeeze all of these dismissive opinions into a single tweet: “We must learn from brexit: Elderly xenophobes will lie to pollsters to hide their racist views, then vote for destructive policies anyway.”

There was, to be sure, no absence of toxic rhetoric over the course of the U.K.’s referendum campaign. Especially in the weeks before Election Day, the cynicism of both sides was on full display. Still, the impulse to accuse 17 million people of racism seems an unhealthy one.

Alas, it’s not just the Brits. Less than 24 hours before polls closed in the U.K., President Obama responded to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the injunction against his 2014 executive amnesty by dismissing his critics as those who want “to wall [them]selves off from those who may not look like us right now, or pray like we do, or have a different last name.” He warned that America’s immigration policy does not “reflect its goodness,” and chided “spasms of politics around immigration and fear-mongering.”

The anti-Brexit crowd and the president do their critics an injustice. What is noteworthy is that they do it in the same way.

In the wake of Orlando, I noted: “The invocation of ‘hate’ has become a way of dismissing opponents by suggesting that their beliefs are beyond the reach of reason. You can’t debate someone who hates, because hatred precludes thought; it’s in the bones. If Republicans are motivated by ‘hate,’ then they are not legitimate political actors, because political life cannot be predicated on irrationality. Reason is our common ground.”

That same impulse is on display here, where “hate” has simply been replaced with some other emotion: “fear,” “xenophobia,” &c. The key is that the animating force is not thought; it’s raw, unconsidered passion.

That is not true when it comes to Brexit, and it’s not true when it comes to immigration in the U.S. But the powers-that-be have lost sight of that. Both sides of the Atlantic are dominated by liberal cosmopolitans who are no longer able to acknowledge the validity of any other worldview than their own.

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Way back in the late 1960’s or early 1970’s radical Leftist, Jerry Rubin wrote that ”we” (meaning the Leftists) should all ”kill our parents.”
His context was after the Kent State shooting.
He said, ”Until you are ready to KILL YOUR PARENTS, you are not ready to change your country, because our parents are our first oppressors.”

Now the REMAIN group have spokesmen calling for older people’s right to vote to be ended.
One step closer to Jerry’s call.

That tweet:
“Elderly xenophobes will lie to pollsters….”
In nothing new.
Search the term, ”shy tory.”
It is called ”virture signalling.”
People look at the pollster then, being somewhat intimidated by him, they say what they think will offend him the least.
Even phone call polls tell the caller that the pollster knows who he is and where he lives, so the same thing happens.

Only, now, all of a sudden, there are calls to put the old people out to pasture.
What’s next?
Forced euthanasia?

The british lion just jumped ship leaving the rest of the pathetic critters on the overcrowded S.S. Euroweenie to fend for themselves Its time to the eagle to leave the Useless Nations for the very same reason

Let’s see… it is xenophobic and hateful to not want where you live to be overrun by people who are xenophobic and hateful… and want to kill you.

@Bill: @Bill:
Only libtards like the AG think “love and caring” will work with these savages.

England says Bye Bye Euroweenies maybe the lions getting its courage back

Those who voted ”REMAIN” are so desperate that they are faking signatures on a petition to re-do this vote!
How about this?
Turnout in the 2015 General Election was 36,185 in the Cities of London and Westminster constituency. Yet over 40,000 are claimed to have signed the Remain petition from that constituency in the past few days!
2,735 supposedly signed from British Antarctic Territory, which has a population of just 250 people!
24,855 people signed the re-do petition from North Korea!
41,118 signatories have come from Vatican City but Vatican City has a population of 839 inhabitants!

So, yes, liberals are lashing out the only way they know how…..dishonestly.

@Nanny G: Apparently it wasn’t “all old White People” who wanted to get out of the EU now was it?

Listening to some interviews of those who voted Remain….how shattered, dissapointed they are…and they based everything on “feelings and emotions” .

Never mind they are being controlled and ripped off by Globalists, and Invaded by swarms of ‘undesirables’ the hell bent on diluting the population and their culture, heritage, laws and country…with the blessings of the EU Globalists.

The indoctrination is really staggering. It’s just unbelievable really.

Another reason I like Trump – he wants to put America and Americans First…it’s about time ! No one can argue our Government has not stood up for this Country and it’s people (Americans) against invaders and people who have come here for nefarious reasons.

I am really happy for Nigel Farage he has had a long hard passionate fight agains the EU Globalists…and I am glad he won!!