Brexit, Sanders, Trump: Votes Against Austerity
and excessive concentrations of power at a federal level, to the detriment of the 99%?
Governmental policies by neoliberals et al. world-wide have enriched the 1%, to no good end, while the rest of us suffer.
The 1%-owned media spin has worked hard to tie Brexit, the Sanders revolution, and anything else the 1% finds inconvenient to racism. Even on NPR, the slant all day long was how no one wants Brexit; not one voice mentioned any possible contrary view, other than one xenophobe who'd doubtless vote for Trump were he in the US. NO discussion of the more or less recent experiences of Ireland and Greece v. Iceland.
But as a non-"mainstream" commentator has put it:
The ruling class across Europe has been dealt a massive blow by the vote of the UK to leave the European Union.
This was a working class revolt against the establishment. . . . Jeremy Corbyn and the trade union movement should demand a general election is held immediately, and take up the frustrations felt by ordinary people at insecure work, zero hour contracts, job losses, cuts and austerity. Corbyn should cut across the racism of the Tories and UKIP by standing on socialist policies and renationalising rail, electricity, gas, post and other key industries.
https://coventrysocialists.com/2016/...at-referendum/
We're all part of a larger system, but subsystems with semi-autonomy may be another kind of helpful check-and-balance. There needs to be a degree of local flexibility and accountability. Once any organization (a corporation, nation, union, etc.) becomes too large, the top and bottom of the decisional trees lose contact; there's less transparency and accountability and, as Assange might put it, the organization's computational I.Q. is degraded. And the organization becomes more susceptible to hijacking by sociopaths.
C.f. Greece, Iceland, et al.
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Putting something this complex up to a vote was an immense blunder. People tend to vote for their own interests, without seeing the larger picture.
And now "the economy, stupid" is going to be worse for some time to come. So how does Brexit make things better? It doesn't.
