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> Should people only vote out of short-term self interest, and to be sneered at if they don't? All people who voted in their long-term interest voted remain. T
by sgift 5y ago
> Should people only vote out of short-term self interest, and to be sneered at if they don't?
All people who voted in their long-term interest voted remain. There is no realistic scenario where a Brexit is better long-term for anyone.
Whether the others deluded themselves into thinking that Brexit is better in the long-term or voted out of their own short-term self interest doesn't matter very much.
- Chris2048 5y agoThat's just your opinion. I'll "delude" myself into thinking sovereignty, and resistance to continental divide-and-conqueror is better long-term (see how trade deals are usually weaponised: [0]; then tell me the same "political power coerced by economic lock-in" isn't at play) is better than short term economic benefits. The "everyone will be worse off out of the EU" argument sounds a lot like the flip-side of trickle-down economics; Some may be worse off, but more equal given the spoils of remain are certainly not equally distributed. [0] https://stallman.org/business-supremacy-treaties.html https://stallman.org/business-supremacy-treaties.html