re: #33 Charles Johnson

Brexit was one of the biggest scams the global right wing have ever managed to pull off. It’s basically wrecked the UK for generations.

Being a kid there in the 80s there was always this paradox of Britons being intensely vain about their empire and deeply disgusted by the colonials they deliberately brought back to the homeland, as though it was a massive imposition to acknowledge that their social engineering had created the circumstances such that there were all of these brown people who were British.

Brexit felt like the recurrence…the farce after the tragedy, perhaps…of all of that.

Empire is a prion-based brain disease, I swear.