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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm seeing a lot of correlations between this and our own countries politics: the populist desire to not get involved with other countries and to take severe stands on immigration.  I can also see a stark similarity between Boris Johnson and Donald Trump - hell, they even look alike.  Could you picture these two at a G8 summit?[/quote]

Well, with Cameron's resignation, Boris Johnson is highly likely to be at a G8 summit.   And if the populist movement that got Great Britain out of the EU and "shocked" the nation's intelligentsia carries into the US in November, Donald Trump will likely be there as well.  The high school class presidents may no longer control the world.[/quote]

Fortunately, we can still stop Trump.[/quote]

[b]I'm pretty certain he will lose in a landslide[/b].[/quote]

Not a Trump supporter, but IMHO anyone who says this is completely out of touch with America outside the Beltway (and the other big cities).

You have no idea how popular he is and how much his message resonates with most Americans.[/quote]

I agree to an extent, although I'm not sure it's "most" Americans.  [b]A very vocal, passionate segment of the population, definitely[/b].[/quote]

I think the Brexit vote shows the people you're describing may be more numerous and influential than was believed by the pundits.[/quote]

The polls were right, were they not?  David Cameron is an idiot for ever calling for this referendum.

Supporters of Leave predominantly old, rural and undereducated.  Supporters of remain young educated and urban.  Once again the young are paying for the bad judgment of the baby boomer generation.[/quote]
So, in other words, you think that pain inflicted on some parts of the populace should mean more than pain inflicted on others?

If EU was good for Brits, why would they want to leave?[/quote]

You're on the right track. The Young, urban and/or elite simply refuse to grasp that these economic agreements (whether in the form of the EU or NAFTA or liberal immigration policies) are generally bad for the lower and working classes of wealthier countries while good for the young, urban and elite. Is it really any shock that any class of people reject what turns out to be a bad deal for them?  Ascribing this to ignorance or lack of education on the part of leave voters is just elitism. [/quote]

But how will this improve fortunes for factory/farm workers that can't export their goods as easily?  Or for the middle class whose savings will plummet due to a volatile stock market?  [/quote]

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