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2016 Postmortem

katsy

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Reply to forjusticethunders (Reply #16)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 04:00 PM

Jun 2016

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/brexit-referendum/britain-s-brexit-how-baby-boomers-defeated-millennials-historic-vote-n598481

Or you can google other commentaries.

The working class has been played by tptb for a long time. Politicians engage in pitting one group of workers against the other and brexit is a result of this rage. The divisive racist propoganda fed to the working class reared its ugly head and now, tptb are shocked. Why is that?

Why was it always that one group of workers suffered so the other group could be accomodated? One rationale: profit.

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Economic nationalism isn't socialism or leftism and should not be supported by progressives [View all] forjusticethunders Jun 2016 OP

k/r Dawson Leery Jun 2016 #1

What? katsy Jun 2016 #2

Level the playing field? Capitalists own and manage the playing field. nt glennward Jun 2016 #3

Is their position sustainable? katsy Jun 2016 #13

Exactly Uponthegears Jun 2016 #5

True to an extent forjusticethunders Jun 2016 #10

Exactly. katsy Jun 2016 #12

Stephen King. cyberpunk Jun 2016 #15

A fuck you by who? forjusticethunders Jun 2016 #16

Here katsy Jun 2016 #18

Where were these workers when Thatcher was elected? forjusticethunders Jun 2016 #19

Did you just move the goalposts or should you maybe katsy Jun 2016 #20

So expecting representatives in one's own country... ljm2002 Jun 2016 #4

So fight and organize against that forjusticethunders Jun 2016 #9

So fight to raise other countries wages, that will level the playing field. JaneyVee Jun 2016 #14

To be fair, if anything 15 is too low in a lot of places in terms of US COL. forjusticethunders Jun 2016 #17

K&R Starry Messenger Jun 2016 #6

Yawn. closeupready Jun 2016 #7

Excellent point, ForJustice. Hortensis Jun 2016 #8

also i just realized i posted it in the wrong forum forjusticethunders Jun 2016 #11