Not mine, contacts on Facebook and other Social Media. In the UK I am privileged to follow people who appear to know everything. That's right, there isn't something that happens in the world that they don't know. Me? Yes I do know a lot but in general, I tend to be more of a sceptic than someone who espouses opinion, I'd generally come from some sort of proof point, a scientific angle or a position that can be argued or at least debated.
It's amazing how many UK based people don't like Donald Trump and ask "America, what have you done?" These are the same people who didn't like the Brexit vote and want it overturned. Democracy sort of states that if the majority voted that way then your minority opinion whilst it was listened to did not convince those who voted against you. There's a sort of "we lost, it's not fair we want another vote until you think the same way we do." and it doesn't work that way. If your arguments were valid, then people would have voted for it. I didn't expect the vote to go that way and speaking with French and Dutch friends I was probably as shocked as most even though I voted to leave.
I actually worked in Europe for quite a while and more so in Brussels and Paris. I stayed in the same Hotels as our MEPs and NATO people and they all looked to be having a good time. Meals, at our expense, were not a snack and a beer let's say. But, you know, apparently many people think that we no longer trade with the EU, ECC or whatever you want to call it. A little closer look might fact check. I know I still get things from Denmark and Holland for sure quite regularly and Poland too.
Anyway, as usual, I digress. I was struck with the Facebook comments from a specific set of my contacts whom I know have this sort of Remainer, Democrat, Labour type leaning and I can only applaud that after the disappointment of these socialist, let's be kind (they never are) very opinionated commentators, they buy every word the MSM gives them. Here's a way to find out. Ask them about something and listen carefully to the answer. It's normally a headline and perhaps sub headline that you will get on a subject. They cannot normally go deeper on a subject. I always rattle on about Climate Change (as it is now called). Listen to the key points people have about it. It will be the Arctic is melting, Polar Bears are declining, Methane is being released, Forest Fires and Hurricanes are increasing blah blah.
Scratch the surface and remove the veneer and it starts to fall apart but not for the headline writers and people who espouse these quite clever information bites. Ask what an Inter-glacial is, ask why in fact the Polar Bear population is increasing, ask where are the global data (temperature) sensors located across the land and the sea. At that point, either they are going to start yelling at you that you are a Climate Denier or they are just going to keep quoting you headlines. There is nothing below that, no in depth knowledge and no research. Do you research as I reminded the lady who told me about Climate Justice. What was the outcome of the trial and what exactly does that mean?
So back to our American Cousins. We in the UK have no idea whatsoever about America other than Hollywood, Westerns, Presidents, Disneyland and a few geography facts. I hit Seattle once for half an hour and so I've never really been there. I've been to Canada but of course, they aren't anything like Americans either. We don't live in a massive country, we don't have the political system or the opportunities that they have. We laugh at their comedy programmes but that isn't real life either. The land of Cheers and Frazier, Friends and so on does not exist. I worked for an American company and the workers that came over were VERY different to us. Our culture is quaint and also not well understood.
Working in the City of London was quite an eye opener to my American colleagues, bless them. I always remember that the lunchtime drinking culture was particular frowned upon.
We will probably never understand our cousins. They appear to love their country and are patriotic, God faring and they like to win (we like to take part and participate). They don't have our propensity for having left leaning socialist type Governments. Europe is possibly the diametric opposite to the USA. That's probably why we'd never understand the politics and the unique nature of that country. We are terrible at sitting in our glass house and throwing stones. We compare everything to our own lived experience and let he who is without sin cast the first stone. These luvvies have done a good job in tearing down our country to the mess it is in now. We have a government that cares not a jot about the people it governs. Net Zero has doubled the cost of our fuel and so we go cold, industry closes down and moves to China and we are all happy as we have saved a few grams of a molecule who's contribution to Earth's atmosphere is 0.04% yes look how clever we are. These people dance around words as you mustn't be PHOBIC whatever the f**k that is. You can't say this, you can't say that, don't give offence (which is actually taken not given BTW) and so on.
These useless Oxygen wasters, having made everyone poorer, less well off, miserable and now angry then turn their attention to the USA and have the temerity to state that the people of America didn't know what they were voting for! That they should have done what they, the keyboard warriors of Facebook and TikTok, wanted. Honestly?!! Not one of them can tell you why this happened and what the USA means to its people. Just look and listen and you can find plenty of sources that are not MSM and you will learn a lot.
Here is a great commentator writing from experience who puts it in layman's terms it makes great reading and may perhaps explain why "we" in the UK don't "get it". https://open.substack.com/pub/konstantinkisin/p/10-reasons-you-didnt-see-this-coming?r=4s3fs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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