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In reply to the discussion: British government realises Brexit is a mistake, official says [View all]Bernardo de La Paz
(48,999 posts)28. There are TWO kinds of globalization
1) Corporations moving jobs offshore and destroying manufacturing jobs and even service jobs (call centers for example). The other side is that the toys we all love become plentiful and available to much larger segments of the populace than the top 1% or 10%.
Remember when the first flip phones became available at about a thousand dollars to replace the clunky cell phones that weighed three pounds. Without globalization it would have taken a few decades for the price of those flip phones to come down to a point where 50% could afford one.
The Right Wing likes to play both ends of this kind. They love to fatten profits by exporting jobs but they also love to whip up a frenzy about lost jobs.
2) Globalization also means travel, communication, trans-national love affairs / marriages / children, cultural sharing, work experiences, spreading social experimentation in extending rights, and greater cooperation on issues that impact all people; chief issue of course being climate change.
The Right Wing is dead set against this kind of globalization. It wakes people up, widens their horizons and makes progressive ideas and policies more believable.
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From what I read, the younger people were mostly for Remain, the older mostly for Leave (nm)
progree
Apr 2017
#14
Yes, but enough younger people & some older people really regret their Leave vote. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2017
#17
You're right about globalization and the whipped up aversion to it however there were real issues..
JHan
Apr 2017
#20
No, there isn't any problem with asking for a referendum but for major issues something like that
cstanleytech
Apr 2017
#11
The problem with that is that you can simply flip the question because all referenda are gonna fail.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2017
#26
that's slightly better but I don't think it will improve things..I try to answer it here:
JHan
Apr 2017
#22
The problem is that there's no other way under the UK constitution to approach this,
Denzil_DC
Apr 2017
#44
Then somebody in government needs to have the guts to pipe up and say this clearly.
Denzil_DC
Apr 2017
#3
Thanks. Some here really don't want to look at the Russian connection to Calexit, either...
Hekate
Apr 2017
#16
Nobody wants the Brexit. Even the people who voted Yes in the referendum have changed their minds.
DetlefK
Apr 2017
#7
Putin wants Brexit. Putin wants to diminish any European unions or relationships...
Raster
Apr 2017
#10
Care to rephrase that, pansypoo? "Idiot baby boomers"? That's the cause of all your troubles?
Hekate
Apr 2017
#19
Future headline: "Rethugs realises installing tRump was an act of great self-harm, bigly." nt
kydo
Apr 2017
#23
The fact they're going thought this with effectively no opposition party doesn't help
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Apr 2017
#27
Yes. He was selfishly-motivated in the context of the internal politics of his party,
Ghost Dog
Apr 2017
#39