Originally Posted by
jackal2
Labour's political strategy is based on creating, maintaining and increasing antagonism and separation between what it defines as the capitalist elites and what it considers to be the working classes. Entire generations grew up with the implicit or explicit message that "You should vote Labour because you're working class", with the implication that if you didn't, you weren't "one of us". It's how the unions built their powerbase. I think one of the many reasons Labourites so hated Margaret Thatcher was because she attracted large swathes of working class voters that Labour believed were its exclusive property.
So here you've taken the Leave result, super-imposed your own pre-conceived and self-reassuring interpretation of the reasons it came about, treated that interpretation as fact, and then agreed with yourself that this is why the result can be ignored. And of course you've used a bit of labelling to imply that Leave voters are either fascists or victims of fascists.
Actually, I would have thought that holding a public vote and then seeking to discredit and ignore the outcome when it doesn't match what you wanted is in itself a rather fascist or at least a dictatorial characteristic. Various tin pot despots around the world call elections and then annul the result when it threatens to undermine or end their power. That's what I call abhorrent!
Half true. I didn't object to the result, because he won office through American's agreed electoral system. The stuff about coming to power on the back of racism is just you presenting your pre-conceived interpretations as fact again. Whatever you think of Trump, he appeared to play to, and draw significant amounts of support from, working class areas and people who simply felt that their views were no longer heard by the political establishment, including the Democratic Party that they had traditionally been led to believe was "their" voice.