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In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits Google About Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened
As the world makes peace with the news that the United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union, people in the UK are increasingly trying to figure out what this means. Google noted on Twitter late Thursday that "What is the EU?" was the second top UK question on the EU since the news broke, with "Why did Britain leave the EU?" being the first. The questions also speak volume about the awareness of the issue among them. Understandably, some people also resorted to the search engine to look for Irish passports. "Getting an Irish passport" keywords saw a 100% surge.
What we've seen happen in the UK reflects what we're also seeing happening in the United States. Average people are stick and tired with the leftist political status quo, especially on crucial issues like immigration and economics.
The leftist academics and leftist elites who push for unbridled immigration and socialist policies are either totally insulated, or directly benefit from, what they're pushing on the rest of society, at the expense of the rest of society.
We have bureaucrats and politicians who benefit from higher taxes and unlimited immigration, yet they don't face any of the harm that average people have to face thanks to these policies.
We need to remember that many business leaders are also best considered to be leftists, even if they may wear the cloak of being rightists. They support higher taxation of others, they support unlimited immigration, and they support the government throwing other people's money at them.
The average people of the UK have clearly had enough of this tyrannical leftism, hence the outcome of the referendum.
We are seeing the same in the US. Trump represents the first hope that the American people as a whole have had to escape from the leftist politicians, academics and business leaders who have been in control for decades now.
What we're seeing in the UK and soon the US is a global rejection of the leftism that has been subjugating people in the developed, and even the developing, world for so long now.
Always scary when citizens from a different country try to behave like American citizens.