06-26-2016, 01:52 PM
Megan McArdle who I usually don't like has some good thoughts on the Brexit:
When I have the time I’ll write more about this but I’m increasingly convinced that the contemporary “left” is dominated by the Mandarins and people in culturally prestigious but relatively low paying positions who are more concerned about trimming the power of the economic elites than empowering the masses. For those who believe in the double rhythm theory there are clear parallels to the civil when the lower classes, Irish immigrant Copperheads in the north and Unionists in the upland south, weren’t interested in fighting a war between the elites.
Quote:I didn’t think it would actually happen.
Sitting in an airport with middle-class Britons last week, I heard far more support for leaving the European Union than for staying in. But heading into Thursday's voting, I couldn’t quite believe it.
I didn’t think it would happen simply because things like this usually don’t. The status quo is a powerful totem. People don’t like jumping off into the unknown. As polls moved toward Remain in the waning days of the campaign, I assumed that we were seeing the usual pattern: People flirt with the new, dangerous outsider, then come home and marry the familiar boy next door.
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2...hought-but
When I have the time I’ll write more about this but I’m increasingly convinced that the contemporary “left” is dominated by the Mandarins and people in culturally prestigious but relatively low paying positions who are more concerned about trimming the power of the economic elites than empowering the masses. For those who believe in the double rhythm theory there are clear parallels to the civil when the lower classes, Irish immigrant Copperheads in the north and Unionists in the upland south, weren’t interested in fighting a war between the elites.