Salon: Embattled Whiteness Gave Us Brexit.

[DonCoquixote]

17. a meaningful slice

"The older workers and pensioners who backed “Leave” are handing power to men of capital like Boris Johnson and Farage, a former commodities trader; the working and middle-class whites who back Trump, if they succeed, will hand power to a longtime financial elite, leading a party that bends fully to the prerogatives of financial elites. No, this is a backlash against the cosmopolitanism of those elites, against the belief that they broke the contract that upheld the relative social and economic status of people like them. If you’re on the left, this is a backlash for all the wrong reasons."

I hear many of the far left talking about how this is a victory, and they show the same lack of foresight that made Bernie lose. to them I say "YOUR exercise in self congratulation and self immolation masks the fact that you have the LUXURY and YES PRIVILEDGE to say "we are choosing a lower standard of living for noble reasons" omitting the fact that the ones who will be doing most of the starving will be your poorer, browner fellow citizens." Of course Brussels needed a bloody nose, especially for how it treated all people, but especially brown people. However, let us not gild a RACIST act because of that dis-proven saw of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." The elites will only get STRONGER, the Germans only richer.