British To Leave the EEU

There is more to the plebiscite vote by British citizens to leave the European Economic Union than the vote itself. I think it a wise move, given the EEU has been a  disaster for  the wealthier European nations like the British Isles.  British voters defied the will of their incompetent leaders, foreign allies, experts and much of the political establishment by opting to leaving its primary connection to Europe. (It will take a couple of years to fully leave the EEU) "Defying their leaders"  sounds familiar to we Americans, who are so fed up with corrupt and non responsive politics that we have also rejected convention and  will elect our next president with an election, not between conventional candidates, but between a crooked and incompetent opportunist (Hillary Clinton) and a clown (Donald Trump).

Perhaps the U.S. and Britain are leading a a new revolution against the pathetic leadership of our democratic republics. Will other democracies also say "enough" and attempt to make their leaders be responsive to real issues rather than the idealistic phony ones like "climate change", transgender bathroom privilege, the demonization of the successful and canonization of the failed population and the embracing of open borders? If Trump were elected here in November, pared with Britain's leaving the dying EEU, there may radiate vast economic, political and security uncertainty across the globe. I think this a good thing. The left wing crazies have taken control of  democracy, abolishing traditional values and creating chaos and dysfunction. But many residents of those democratic states are giving one last try to take it back.

The voters' decision to abandon Britain's decades old membership in the European Union  is perhaps the most dramatic to date in a wave of populist and nationalist uprisings that are seizing both sides of the Atlantic and overturning all notions of what is politically possible. Instead, a majority of British voters heeded the call of pro-Brexit campaigners to declare independence from what many here regard as an oppressive EEU that stymies the economy and enables mass migration of anyone who wants to Britain.

When a  democracy becomes so oppressive that it wrests reasonableness from its agenda, citizens will revolt. That time seems to have come in both the United States and in Britain.  The question is not how Britain and America will fare as a result. The will both suffer initially in the transition, but will prosper once acclimated to it. The real question, I think, is which democratic nations will follow the path being set by the U.S. and Great Britain?