Posted by dovetailjoint on May 28, 2019, 9:44 am, in reply to "Exactly..."
What's a fact, whether the 'real left', as represnted by too many people here, like it or not; is that the clear, obvious and massive benefit of the Brexit process has been Nigel Farrage and Boris Johnson; not the left. Surely this has to have some significance, some cause to reflect and think from the left? Are pithy slogans enough? I don't think so.
Personally, the prospect of Boris Johnson or Farrage becoming PM, concerns me, to put it mildly. It's a nightmare. The rise of the nationalist right. A hard Brexit is going to be a disaster for the economy and the poorest in society, yet that seems to be what we're heading for. So the economy is going to take a hit and th political system is falling apart, the parties disintegrating. That seems to be a big price, potentially dangerous, for the dubious dreamtime of Brexit.
And I find many of the comments here about the referendum and democracy, quite stunningly crude, primative and basically rather ignorant. Sorry.
Democracy is an extremely complex and often contradictory, set of processes in a society like ours. On this board lots of people appear, from their utterances, to confuse democracy with voting and majorities, completely ignoring the concept of citizenship. That's just one mistake. Though, as democracy is not an easy subject, I suppose this is undertandable.