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Surprisingly, I think agree with all of that.
The market chaos is getting worse as it become clear that no one in Britain has a plan for Brexit and that there is a complete leadership vacuum in the country right now. Cameron's a lame duck and Farage and Johnson have hidden from the cameras since the vote. Nobody knows what comes next and nobody's in charge. Nobody had a plan for what to do on the day after a "leave" vote, least of all the actual people campaigning for the "leave" side. What a shitshow.
The lessons of the last 30-40 years are (a) globalization is a massive boon for humanity as a whole, (b) the benefits are widespread in some ways (cheaper t-shirts and iPhones) but concentrated in other ways (massive flows of wealth to the top 0.5%) (c) the burdens of globalization fall disproportionately on the poor and uneducated; and (d) western governments have been completely ineffectual in crafting a policy response to (b) and (c). Brexit and Trump are the howl of rage from the electorate about that failure. Assuming (and praying) that Trump loses in November, this needs to be a wake up call to both parties in this country to get serious about fixing this problem.
The market chaos is getting worse as it become clear that no one in Britain has a plan for Brexit and that there is a complete leadership vacuum in the country right now. Cameron's a lame duck and Farage and Johnson have hidden from the cameras since the vote. Nobody knows what comes next and nobody's in charge. Nobody had a plan for what to do on the day after a "leave" vote, least of all the actual people campaigning for the "leave" side. What a shitshow.
The lessons of the last 30-40 years are (a) globalization is a massive boon for humanity as a whole, (b) the benefits are widespread in some ways (cheaper t-shirts and iPhones) but concentrated in other ways (massive flows of wealth to the top 0.5%) (c) the burdens of globalization fall disproportionately on the poor and uneducated; and (d) western governments have been completely ineffectual in crafting a policy response to (b) and (c). Brexit and Trump are the howl of rage from the electorate about that failure. Assuming (and praying) that Trump loses in November, this needs to be a wake up call to both parties in this country to get serious about fixing this problem.
Boris isn't in hiding though it seems his column in The Telegraph was written for some Earth-2 where the campaign wasn't about migration and UK financial markets are reacting calmly
That pretty much goes without saying. Usually it is much easier to find a post from Tuffalo that is ludicrous, than one that is not.
So would I. You can't just keep calling people who express concerns about the way globalism has developed racists, Nazis, and xenophobes and leave it at that. Their concerns need to be addressed.
The market chaos is getting worse as it become clear that no one in Britain has a plan for Brexit and that there is a complete leadership vacuum in the country right now. Cameron's a lame duck and Farage and Johnson have hidden from the cameras since the vote. Nobody knows what comes next and nobody's in charge. Nobody had a plan for what to do on the day after a "leave" vote, least of all the actual people campaigning for the "leave" side. What a shitshow.
The lessons of the last 30-40 years are (a) globalization is a massive boon for humanity as a whole, (b) the benefits are widespread in some ways (cheaper t-shirts and iPhones) but concentrated in other ways (massive flows of wealth to the top 0.5%) (c) the burdens of globalization fall disproportionately on the poor and uneducated; and (d) western governments have been completely ineffectual in crafting a policy response to (b) and (c). Brexit and Trump are the howl of rage from the electorate about that failure. Assuming (and praying) that Trump loses in November, this needs to be a wake up call to both parties in this country to get serious about fixing this problem.
We've had this discussion before in other contexts, but I think making people understand the interrelation of (b) and (c) is the key. The top .5% concentrating that wealth is a primary reason for the widespread benefits, and the poor and uneducated are the ones who see the biggest resulting benefits of that to go along with bearing the biggest burden. So is that a trade-off that they are willing to live with and are we okay with a general "know your role" response, with obvious exceptions for those individuals who are able to move upwards from their general roles through mostly their own efforts.
I love when we post clips of uneducated folks on any side of an issue. Definitely something we should look at when deciding if it was a good idea or not, or whether the majority of supporters were informed about the decision they were voting on (in this case clearly a lot of folks were not informed).
I think that Brexit and the Trump and Bernie campaigns are big fat "no" to the bolded question. People want a policy response to this. Depending on who you ask, they want their leaders to address immigration, allegedly job-stifling Euro-regulations, or tax the shit out of the fat cats, but a very large portion of the electorate does not see cheap t-shirts and iPhones as a substitute for having a decent well-paying job and the opportunity for their kids to get ahead.
I agree that is their sentiment. However, I think many of them also vastly overestimate their own abilities and value. So would they rather be poor in terms of the Western stratification, but able to afford cheap technology, food, and goods that make their lives seem like royalty in comparison to those who've "taken" their jobs? Or would they rather have a higher sense of theoretical self-worth but be priced out of their current standard of living? I think if you adjusted the system then most of the same people's higher sense of self worth would last about a year until they realized that they couldn't afford their prior comforts and then they'd be complaining that they were screwed again.
Assuming arguendo that your assertion here is correct, in the current political setting I'm not sure it matters. There is a large group of people in Britain and America who want something, anything, to change because they perceive that they are getting screwed under the existing system. The experts and smart people tell them over and over again that the thing they want changed will actually hurt them in the long run, but it falls on deaf ears. They've been screwed and marginalized for so long by experts and smart people that they just want to break some windows for the sake of changing the scenery. That is what has led to Brexit and to Trump being the GOP nominee, and to Bernie's very unexpected strength.
The point is that the elites in the US need to figure out how to address these issues before something truly harmful happens to us. David Cameron let the genie out of the bottle in Britain and a whole generation of people is going to suffer as a result. The analysis you just posted may actually be true - but it won't make Bernie or Trump supporters feel better or change their votes.
Assuming arguendo that your assertion here is correct, in the current political setting I'm not sure it matters. There is a large group of people in Britain and America who want something, anything, to change because they perceive that they are getting screwed under the existing system. The experts and smart people tell them over and over again that the thing they want changed will actually hurt them in the long run, but it falls on deaf ears. They've been screwed and marginalized for so long by experts and smart people that they just want to break some windows for the sake of changing the scenery. That is what has led to Brexit and to Trump being the GOP nominee, and to Bernie's very unexpected strength.
The point is that the elites in the US need to figure out how to address these issues before something truly harmful happens to us. David Cameron let the genie out of the bottle in Britain and a whole generation of people is going to suffer as a result. The analysis you just posted may actually be true - but it won't make Bernie or Trump supporters feel better or change their votes.