It's so ironic and sad to see the left going all ageist and disgusted by the poor after so many decades trying to be the banner of these people. Of course, they were also name-calling everyone as bigoted racists, and still are, as if they didn't get the memo that this is an election-losing strategy. The left won't learn, because the left part of our brains is just stubburnly stupid like that. So prepare to see the left raining down on Trumpsters as being bigoted racists and then risk having the entire moderate opinion go all "Ah **** you I ain't no racist" and decide to vote against Hillary.
Come on, Left, you know you wanna do this. Just keep on calling everyone bigoted and racist and sexist, it will all be fine in the coming zombie apocalypse.
Yes, you got it. I blame this **** 49/49, 49 on Juncker and his eurocrat cronies who have been doing a horrible, terrible job in Europe ****ing the entire union taking it for granted, 49 on the left who has completely lost the plot and decided to be just despicable against the majority of people in our western world because apparently, they are white or men or whatever it is that it is their sin du jour. And the remaining 2 on the Farage moron. Yes, I only give 2 to this idiot. He deserves no more credit than that.
So go on, Left, continue being despicable and see where it leaves you and the rest of the world: in the hands of the Trumps and the Boris of this world. I'll ****ing love, just LOVE that future. Me and my Colt's bullet in my ****ing brain.
So the speech about stopping being divisive and insulting towards people that don't agree with you... is delivered via being divisive and insulting towards people that don't agree with you.
I'll respect people in so far as respecting them as people, but I won't pretend bad arguments aren't bad, or obvious attempts to carve special authority status aren't obvious, or disdain for historical precedent and experts' opinions isn't the worst thing that's happened to public discourse (not that it's a new thing, but it tends to go in waves and is back with a vengeance right now).
Your questioning my hypocrisy is well put, and I admit my failings here, except for a very few important differences.
First, I was never this confrontational during the campaigns. I always addressed people online without any name calling and always challenging the arguments, not the people. And yet, I couldn't but see not only everyone going on on how the Leave campaign was bigoted and racist and etc., I saw the
mainstream media treating the Leave campaign that way. This backfired. Hard. All I saw was this ****ty divisive attitude that did actually drive people away. I saw this in real time. And they are still doing it.
Second, I am not railing against the Remain voters. Those are merely sensible people who voted reasonably conservative. I am railing against slacktivists and activists and media pundits that
kept on calling their opposition as bigots. These are the assholes. Conversely, the Leave voters are the ones being called bigots. Perhaps too old to even know what the hell they are doing (AGEISM FTW!!!!), definitely too white for their own good, etc. The
Leave voters. Which apparently comprise half of a nation. Just look at that Bullock's comment up there. Detestable. "Rich leftists are alright, poor right wingers are stupid", etc. The classism within the Left is truly astounding these days.
Third, the Left is completely misdiagnosing everything, and losing elections like it's christmas to their opponents. This pisses me off to no end. There were truly
good arguments for Leave, and to see that I'm not just apologizing for xenophobia or any other stupid epiteph you want to glue me in, just think on how Greece was and is being treated. Not even an empire would treat one of its colonies this bad. To know how the back corridors of those discussions went is vomiting inducing. At one point, Varoufakis was threatened with
Causus belli if he didn't sign a bailout that everyone in the room knew and confirmed wouldn't work. This sole example is enough for any Leave campaign in any european country. Let alone what they did to all the other so-called "PIIGS" countries (good non-xenophobia there, europe, just great).
So to say that because the xenophobes voted for Leave, therefore Leave is xenophobic, merely outlines how irrational and logic-absent the brains that are uttering these words are.
If Europe had behaved rationally and sensibly for the past 10 years,
the Leave campaign would have lost in a landslide. And this name-calling was not only untrue and irrational, it backfired.
And yet, all we had in the nets and tvs and newspapers was how "Xenophobia was winning", or how the problem was the white old english bigots. Well, a lot of people just gave all these pseudo-elites their middle finger. And I understand that, albeit being sad at the price of it.