I've been reading up over at naked capitalism. I figure that's as good a place to get an idea of the realities as any, and the discussions there are certainly interesting, and happily, very much accessible to laymen. In a nutshell: It's complex and complicated. I believe the political implications of brexit could be far reaching.

"The EU’s disintegration is now running at full speed.”

Like Wile E. Coyote going off the Dover Cliffs, anti-immigrant blather and the MOE made the destruction of the UK Tory party inevitable but can Labour and the left capitalize on this continuing devolutionary chaos.

well the title says it all. Enjoy. Americans wrote it. Just saying...

The (American) Idiot’s Guide to Brexit

Well, idiots seem to grow like weed. It can make you high and take over the vegetable beds. I don't know if I like the article, but then I read all sorts of things and get happily ever more idiotically dumb. Sigh.

oh well, I am still not over it. So, I ran into this and found it worth to look at, just for "a reality check", though the whole thing is fictional. Hmm, may be it's just hard to not be able anymore to believe in a "European Dream", I have long given up to believe in the "American Dream". I guess we all need to stop dreaming. What a pity. The realities are so sobering. Like Fuck that Shit kind of sobering.

Saladin

Funny

it falls to the right

so does fascism

Coincidence

hardly

harvard educated

mother fuckers

A simple experience

explains much

shocking and awing the Middle East

has consequences

I'd migrate, too,

would you?

The returns are still coming in, and there is much debate on who backed what and why, who said what to whom, and so on. But preliminary data tells us that the biggest forces behind the Brexit campaign, and the people crowing about it the loudest, with exceptions, are on the far right, and they used strong appeals to racism, xenophobia, even homophobia to get what they wanted.