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Uninformed person from the middle of North America, here. I read this article and I get the sense the author was delicately writing around certain issues. The p

Uninformed person from the middle of North America, here. I read this article and I get the sense the author was delicately writing around certain issues. The part about UK becoming more illiberal (but not as illiberal as Turkey) strikes me as one such place, but like I say, middle of North America.... Exactly how illiberal? I suspected the whole Brexit thing was to increase power and prestige of hereditary aristocrats. Would an illiberal UK become less democratic and more medieval aristocratic? There's not much fundamentalist religion, as there is in Turkey, so going full crusader seems unlikely. Would the UK try to restore it's old empire, like Turkey did with the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus?

yuppie_scum 4y ago
Simplest way to explain it in americanese: Brexit happened because British MAGA’s voted for it. An older generation and less-informed younger folks believed in British exceptionalism/history of empire without taking into consideration the fact that the empire was long gone and founded on the brutal exploitation of indigenous peoples across the world. They blamed european (polish) and African immigrants, and regulators in Brussels for their problems. They were sold a false bill of goods by charismatic politicians who couldn’t back it up. Now they’re paying the price and they will for a generation or more.