I find it odd that Wales voted largely in favour of brexit, which is odd give that they are one of the biggest beneficiary's of EU funding in the UK.
But remember that the EU is messing with the free market and that has bad consequences for at least some people. That funding that goes into wales goes to certain people and businesses and props them up, which makes it very hard for rival businesses to compete fairly and you end up with back hand dealings and corruption, as we see out of Brussles where people go to make deals with MEPs.
Some people are happy to just work for an honest living and they can't do that competing against those having money thrown at them, so inevitably a lot of people are going to fight back against that.
Best post of this year thus far. So much of what you said applies here in the States too. You are, I'm sure, thankful that the voting process still works and that majority rule is still in force. I have days when I am not certain how much longer we will retain that basic principle of a representative democracy here in the States. Our leaders seem hell-bent on repeating the mistakes that history shows us have detrimental outcomes.
Whether the choices ultimately prove out to be right or to be wrong, the people of a nation must make the choices for that nation through the voting process. History shows us what happens when a small cadre of elites take over that process.
Congrats on transferring the power back to the electorate.
Thanks, it's a great time to be alive, the smaller but way more vocal minority are of course up in arms about it, you can't go near social media as someone who supports the leave vote because it's so far left and invaded with people who are livid at the results.
I'm actually a supporter of Trump I think he mirrors very closely the fight back we've started in the UK, he kinda mirrors in some ways UKIP here who are the driving force behind getting a referendum. He stood besides us an said that ignore what Obama says about re-negotiations, if he's president he'll put Britain to the front of the queue.
I also mirror your fears, the youth today do not know what it's like to have to fight for democracy, they take it for granted because they've never had to sacrifice to get it, they're incredibly entitled. I've just helped write/edit a petition that is going up to the UK gov site to oppose the existing petition asking for a 2nd referendum on EU. One of the core things to point out is that this country was founded on democracy and it's a core value to the British people, and that people worked, fought and died to protect it, that shouldn't be forgotten.
The long er stay away from strife the more people become entitled and start to not value these principles, it's no surprise to me it was the youth who most strongly wanted to remain, extremely naive people who don't understand how the real world works.
Thankfully their weakness is that very entitlement, they're lazy and unprincipled and aren't going to get off their ass to vote which was their downfall.
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