re: #102 Belafon

With charts like this:

You can really tell the Brexit vote was “I got mine, fuck you.”

I actually think it was exactly the Trumpenproletariat, which is the scariest thing to me about it. Leave vote was strongly anti-correlated with wealth, and with education. This is all about people who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s when there were ample manufacturing jobs and a healthy blue-collar workforce.

When people feel left behind, and they can’t figure out how to save themselves, they do stupid shit. This was England’s Trump, in issue form rather than personhood, but the fact that it won convincingly makes this one of the scariest nights of my life.

The monster is here, and it is real, and it’s hard to say how far down the pit goes.