But that’s the problem. The “experts” are corporatists with a track record of failing the people. I’m not saying that we should listen to racist demagogues, but it sure makes sense to me that a lot of people do. If someone says, “If economists are against it, that sounds like a reason I should be for it,” then, lacking any other evidence, I’d say that makes sense.
I actually think that was a huge problem with the “Remain” campaign. I don’t know what it was like to be in Britain for the past few months, but what I saw abroad relied too much on the economic prognostications of people that we all know are worse than random number generators. Anyone who told you there wouldn’t be short term pain from leaving was delusional, but how much pain, how short the short term is, and what will happen in the long term isn’t something some economist can hack out on a calculator.
If David Cameron wanted to convince people that society was better if we worked together and cared about one another, then maybe he should have started by leaving the party of Margaret Thatcher.
