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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 692856" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>I agree with this.</p><p></p><p>I think (hope) Brexit may be a wake-up call to global leaders in one sense. </p><p></p><p>Look at what happened in 2006-2010 with the financial markets. In the area where I lived home prices dropped up to 75 percent. In M's family, recent immigrants all, brothers and sisters were losing houses right and left.</p><p></p><p>And then 10 years later, the financial markets are doing the same crazy thing with securities and bundling loans and mortgages as caused the disaster in the past. Real salaries are falling for the bulk of people, who more and more are falling behind. The so-called advantages of globalization and integration are accruing to a certain class of people--the well-educated, and already advantaged.</p><p></p><p>There is no way that I can argue that good will come of this, but one good thing that could come of it is an understanding and appreciation that the world is composed not only of markets and economies but people and families. And all of those people do not have the same values and wants as their leaders. And in social democracies those people sometimes can prevail. To discount their views as foolish and inferior can sometimes come back to bite one. And it has.</p><p></p><p>The more and more that the elites react with disdain, mocking their stupid and backward constituents who do not understand anything worth understanding, the more I fear they are missing the point. Even if Britain was able to get a do-over, it will not protect us here in the USA, if our leaders continue to misunderstand the will of the people.</p><p></p><p>It is not only reactionary fear and racism. The people cannot be dismissed entirely by denigrating them. That is what I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 692856, member: 18958"] I agree with this. I think (hope) Brexit may be a wake-up call to global leaders in one sense. Look at what happened in 2006-2010 with the financial markets. In the area where I lived home prices dropped up to 75 percent. In M's family, recent immigrants all, brothers and sisters were losing houses right and left. And then 10 years later, the financial markets are doing the same crazy thing with securities and bundling loans and mortgages as caused the disaster in the past. Real salaries are falling for the bulk of people, who more and more are falling behind. The so-called advantages of globalization and integration are accruing to a certain class of people--the well-educated, and already advantaged. There is no way that I can argue that good will come of this, but one good thing that could come of it is an understanding and appreciation that the world is composed not only of markets and economies but people and families. And all of those people do not have the same values and wants as their leaders. And in social democracies those people sometimes can prevail. To discount their views as foolish and inferior can sometimes come back to bite one. And it has. The more and more that the elites react with disdain, mocking their stupid and backward constituents who do not understand anything worth understanding, the more I fear they are missing the point. Even if Britain was able to get a do-over, it will not protect us here in the USA, if our leaders continue to misunderstand the will of the people. It is not only reactionary fear and racism. The people cannot be dismissed entirely by denigrating them. That is what I think. [/QUOTE]
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