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Yeah, the US is doing some terribly stupid stuff. No disagreement there. However, the UK might be more relevant if you hadn't withdrawn from the EU. From the
by xscott 1y ago
Yeah, the US is doing some terribly stupid stuff. No disagreement there.
However, the UK might be more relevant if you hadn't withdrawn from the EU. From the outside it sure looks like you guys decided it was more important to keep out the poor people (or other ethnic backgrounds) than to be part of something with actual collective bargaining power.
- DrScientist 1y agoThe debate about leaving the EU was multi-faceted [1] - but a significant part was a kind of nostalgia for when Britain was indeed Great, and the idea that a UK free from the shackles of the EU could be great again. Take back control was the slogan - a complete misunderstanding of the difference between lost sovereignty and pooled sovereignty. I see the same forces driving the US now as it undermines international organisations. [1] and sure xenophobia played a depressingly large part.
- xscott 1y agoI hadn't thought about it before, but I think the nostalgia angle can explain a bunch of the US attitudes. It seems like a lot of people across the spectrum think the 1950s were a better time: The bigots because of race issues, the incels because of sexual expectations, the young generations envying (and resenting) how the boomers "had it easy", and the hippies thinking new technology is ending the world. I think they're all wrong, but there's no fixing it. Assuming there are no civil or world wars in the near future that radically change the trajectory, China will rise and the US will end up lower on the ladder. > nostalgia for when Britain was indeed Great I'm sure you didn't intend it, but that capital G sure sounds a lot like the slogan for a US political party.