Friday, June 24, 2016

Waiting for the other shoe



          Just like any other morning, I turned on National Public Radio and stood staring out the kitchen window while waiting for the kettle to boil. Five seconds later, I was scraping my jaw out of the sink.

          Brexit is here. I am truly amazed. I haven’t been following the finer details, but still it seemed incredible to me that the British would ever consider anything so drastic as to leave the European Union. Even from these thousands of miles away, the possible repercussions looked to be risky indeed.

          News reports painted the Brexiters as the more passionate and the Remainers as a bit vague and wishy-washy.  Like Miss Marple, who observed the microcosm of human nature in St. Mary Mead, I’ve seen the same phenomenon in our small town politics. It’s usually the angry and poorly informed people looking for change, any change, who show up at town meeting to vote, while the ones happy with the status quo stay home.

          I hope Brexit isn’t a foreshadowing of the upcoming elections in the U.S.

9 comments:

  1. Absolutely. A screaming message to Americans to 'heads up.'

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  2. Oh Lord! I sure didn't expect this and am a tad dismayed. No, make that a LOT dismayed. :-(

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  3. Those photos just cracked me up!

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  4. Sigh. When we heard the news we all said 'does that mean we will be talking President Trump too?'
    Aaargh.
    And now I believe Scotland whats to secede from the UK so they can stay in the EU.
    Interesting times. Scary times.

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  5. I think the British will be disappointed. It's a gamble.

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  6. I haven't been following the British goings on, but I hope it all wprks out satisfactorily.

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  7. It was the elderly who voted to go. No idea why because they had to rebuild after a horrible war.

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  8. I don't think most of us expected they really would pull out. Isolationism is not my idea of what we should be about. This is right up Trump's alley.

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  9. We are all plenty nervous. I think even a lot of the "Leavers" are thinking, "What did we DO?!"

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