Re: In a sane world, Britain would be spoken of in a similar vein as Fascist Italy nt Archived Message
Posted by dovetailjoint on April 2, 2019, 9:36 am, in reply to "Re: In a sane world, Britain would be spoken of in a similar vein as Fascist Italy nt"
I think, at the core, the British have a completely exaggerated understanding and perception of the true role and position of the country in relation to Europe and the wider world. It's like the precipitous decline of the country over the last century, hasn't really registered with huge swathes of the population and certainly not among the ruling elite, who've managed to convince the population that it never really happened at all, and they certainly weren't responsible for throwing away so much wealth and power, needlessly and without much thought. Brexit, strangely, seems to be a kind of 'reckoning' for the political ruling elite, where finally the true scale of what's been lost and the cost, has come home to roost. Joining the EU was a pragmatic attempt to avoid the 'day of reckoning.' To work with the other great, European, world powers, that had also destroyed themselves by mutually destructive warfare during the first half of the twentieth century. It was a club of cripples embracing each other in a desparate attempt to stop themselves from falling over. Only the extreme nationalist right in the Tory Party, never accepted these truths and instead, like drowinging men, clung on to imperialist fantasies about Britain's role in the world and status. Almost like they hadn't pissed away the Empire at all and the results were all the fault of the Europeans. Much of the time, looking at the antics of the British ruling elite, one doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. But that so many on the left, seem to accept so much of their myths and attitudes, but bathed in their own dogmas, is what I find truly astonishing.
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