Brexit is not good news for Hillary. She had better
start talking more about anti-austerity, anti-Wall Street, pro-Main Street, pro-labor, jobs, jobs, jobs that pay well. She needs to get adamant about defeating the TPP. She had better start using Bernie's playbook, and mean it.
Brexit was an anti-establishment vote. Right now 22% of Sanders voters say they will vote for Trump.(I am not one of them). We talk a lot about the "women's, Hispanic, AA vote". We need to start looking at another class of voter called the anti-establishment vote. That is a powerful voting bloc in this country, and many of those voters don't care if the anti-establishment candidate is a Republican, Democrat, Independent, Socialist, etc.
This post is critical of Hillary in an attempt to help her. Please, Hillary, fuck Wall Street, choose Warren as your VP and start running on her's and Sanders' economic policies. Otherwise, we just might be waking up in November as surprised as they are in the UK today!
Edit to add:
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-22/nearly-half-of-sanders-supporters-won-t-support-clinton
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Austerity is not the answer but neither is seceding from international agreements and generally throwing cooperation out the window.
Other ways could have been found to ease the economy. Cutting back on national defense, for one. People should have been focused on that instead of being given the opportunity to trash their own stock market.
I'm not British but the ripple effects of this will be profound. And the local affects will now be austerity without the opportunity for easement.
We have far more weapons than we know what to do with, that's certain, but most aren't put to their intended uses.
And I was mainly talking about the U.K. They could have found other ways than austerity to ease the concerns of the people. We can do the same, all it takes is political will. In the U.S., that means dumping the lazy-ass GOPers.
We could cut our military expenditures in half and still feel secure. This is the 21st century. No one's going to invade the United States. That's ridiculous to even imagine.
And the evidence for Great Britain's 'mistake' is already being felt with the stock market plunge and the devaluing of the British pound. The people in this instance were wrong and I don't think it will take them long to see it.
God help us if Trump is President and starts trashing all our international agreements. Our economy is larger than Great Britain's so the effect would be larger, too, I think.
As for this being the most peaceful era in human history: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/15/were_living_through_the_most_peaceful_era_in_human_history_%E2%80%94%C2%A0with_one_big_exception_partner/
Dr. Steven Pinker, Pulitzer prize-winning author and Harvard psychology professor, writes, “Today we may be living in the most peaceful era in our species’ existence.” He acknowledges: “In a century that began with 9/11, Iraq, and Darfur, the claim that we are living in an unusually peaceful time may strike you as somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene.” Pinker points out, wars make headlines, but there are fewer conflicts today, and wars don’t kill as many people as they did in the Middle Ages, for instance. Also, global rates of violent crime have plummeted in the last few decades. Pinker notes that the reason for these advances are complex but certainly the rise of education, and a growing willingness to put ourselves in the shoes of others has played its part.
Still, by the sheer numbers, this is a more peaceful era than in the past.
Why did no one stop Cameron from letting this happen? Why does the GOP continue to make our own economy "hold its breath"?
Something has to give but it looks so far as if it's just random foot-stomping instead of any true leadership.
You need to read this:
Secondly, the younger generation has lost the right to live and work in 27 other countries. We will never know the full extent of the lost opportunities, friendships, marriages and experiences we will be denied. Freedom of movement was taken away by our parents, uncles, and grandparents in a parting blow to a generation that was already drowning in the debts of our predecessors.
Thirdly and perhaps most significantly, we now live in a post-factual democracy. When the facts met the myths they were as useless as bullets bouncing off the bodies of aliens in a HG Wells novel. When Michael Gove said, ‘The British people are sick of experts,’ he was right. But can anybody tell me the last time a prevailing culture of anti-intellectualism has led to anything other than bigotry?
http://www.vox.com/2016/6/24/12023544/brexit-uk-young-voters
not support him because of who he is but because of what they are and how they are reacting to things that have nothing to do with him. A classic populist movement coalesced around a seemingly "strong" man who expresses resentments and promises very simply with great conviction.
I agree you're going to be right, though, because most conservatives are not the type who support him, and he's making it ridiculously hard for most of those to do the usual conservative thing of getting behind their leader.
Assuming he's on the ballot in November, my guess is an appallingly large number will vote for him but that a sufficient number will just stay home on November 8, with only some crossover voting for Democrats. I'll even bet a whole fiver that turns out to be the case. 
Otherwise, I call Bullshit.
F***ed themselves. The world will survive. 
Authoritarian tone is so charming! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE IT! 
Let the people decide these things! Then Great Britain will have government "small enough to drown in a bathtub".
At least, I don't know what can be presented in simple slogans. I think there are ways to deal with this, but I guess I'm trying to say that a lot of folks feeling that way want a simple solution... with someone to blame. The real solutions don't lend themselves well to stuff like "Make America Great Again." It's more like "Participate in a complicated global economy while protecting worker rights and environment!" That doesn't fit on a hat! 
This is about the future of our country. If Hillary loses she will be just fine, thank you. It's the nation that will be screwed. I hope that the Brexit vote woke up those who are navel gazing and thinking whether they will or will not vote for Hillary.
And no, Warren shouldn't be her VP. She's far more valuable to Democrats in the Senate.
