It amazes me that all you ‘tech’ types don’t understand how the new media have changed people. You should all go read “Understanding Media”, either for the first time, or again, so that you might understand how Twitspace and Mybook have changed both the mechanism and the role of media in decision making.
But first, you need to understand that decisions are ALWAYS made on the basis of emotion, and not facts. The people who voted “Remain” were afraid either that Britain couldn’t go it alone, or their livelihoods (banking, especially) were at risk. The Leave voters were sick of being told what they must accept from Brussels, especially when it involved thousands of ‘refugees’ and ‘migrants’ who came to Britain ONLY for the benefits on offer, and not to work. If you can’t, as a nation, decide who can come in and who can’t, what kind of nation are you? Would Canadians accept it if Obama told us that we had to take in 1 million migrants from Mexico and Central America? Leave voters were afraid their very nation was being reduced to theme parks and music festivals, as millions of people who shared neither British origins, or British values, were ready to flood in.
Cory, you might do well to study the actions of pendulum. When it swings too far one way, it has to come back to the centre. This incessant push for globalization has been done too quickly, without allowing “the little” people to assimilate the changes. Hence, the swing back to nationalism. In time, the pendulum will swing back, but many here seem to react like spoiled children whose candy has been taken away.
