As the Big Ben gong struck 11 p.m. GMT on January 31, marking the moment the United Kingdom left the European Union, thousands of people started singing “Rule Britannia” in Parliament Square. Next to the statue of Winston Churchill was a British Army Parachute Regiment flag—apt, given that the EU is German-dominated—and a few large American flags.
Churchill was half American, and Americans in London clearly love a good independence party. A world where British people are free to vote and kick out their representatives might be hard in the days to come, but it is far, far better than one that was inexorably going towards a European empire. As one of the most striking placards read, “Britain isn’t supposed to be one of the many stars in someone else’s flag.” The period from 1973 to 2020 was a historical aberration.
Perhaps this is why Brexit vexes liberals so much. Brexit is important in ways more than the simple freedom and slavery dichotomy. It ruins a much vaunted and hitherto untouchable narrative. A recent IPSOS-MORI poll shows that Remainers, those who preferred to live in the EU, are less tolerant than Leavers of other people’s opinion. A earlier survey from 2016 found U.S. Democratic women block people on social media far more than do Republican women.
This is because, to leftists, their ideology is like a religion. All politics therefore is theological and Manichean, an existential battle between the forces of good and evil, where dissenting opinion is akin to heresy. For all the talk of diversity, Liberals are the most homogenous ideologically. As William Buckley said once, “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
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See Also:
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(2) The four EU trade rules UK won’t abide by anymore
(3) Brexit branded ‘slap in the face’ for Brussels as French MEP warns EU is ‘doomed to fail’
(4) Nicola Sturgeon left red-faced as independent Scotland fails EU membership test
(5) Varadkar on the BRINK: Irish voters ABANDON PM’s party as Sinn Fein leads latest poll
