Quote Originally Posted by boost View Post
I will say, I'm kinda coming around on Brexit.

I don't think it was a good move, and it is always suspect when your side has the racists' vote-- but I think calling brexiter's all racist is hysteria or intentionally misleading. I don't think isolationism is the solution, but I do feel like the corporatists hijacked the left and they're happy to keep people busy with identity politics while our countries turn into jokes of wealth inequality with entirely service based economies.
If by this you mean you understand people being against globalisation, and voting for Brexit as a means to show that opposition, then I can see that. It's also possible to be against globalisation without shooting your own country, and by proxy yourself, in the foot the way Brexit does,which I think you acknowledge implicitly.


The rest of your arguments don't make a lot of sense to me though. The right-wing parties that claim isolationist policies like Brexit are historically the same ones who are mostly responsible for income disparity, due to their being anti-labour. And Brexit isn't going to solve income disparity unless if by that you mean it will make everyone in the UK poorer, and reduce income disparity that way. But I doubt that's what you meant.

I'm not sure the corporatists have hijacked the left anymore than they have hijacked both sides. It's not like the left is champinoning corporatism more than the right.

A lot of anti-globalisation is coming from racists and xenophobes imo. Most other people don't care if there's a world economy or not, except inasmuch as it affects their own prosperity.

As far as having a service-based economy versus a manufacturing-based one goes, I'd prefer the former myself. Not sure why people have such nostalgia about factory assembly line jobs, like these were some kind of dream job. I'd rather let other countries do the semi-skilled jobs and us do the jobs that pay better, are more interesting to do, and require some kind of education.