Greenwald calls-out the dominant Brexit narrative

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215. Lol.

Listen, you are making a zillion assumptions about what I think -- and from what I can tell, they are all wrong. At the base, you assume that I think Brexit is good -- you are wrong about that. The European Union was a great idea -- but in my view, it has lost its way over time, just like the USA, in following trickle-down economic theory and, more recently, austerity, despite all of the evidence that it is not working. If the EU was working better, i.e., serving everyone better, the populist opposition to it would not exist to the extent it currently does.

As far as why Brits voted Brexit, my point has simply been that it continues to be foolish to discount and disregard the failure of trickle down theory and the growing popular discontent that has resulted. Sure, playing to xenophobia and other fears helped the Brexit front carry the day. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that. We have the same going on here with Trump (and the GOP frankly).

But blaming the outcome of the vote on xenophobes would be like me blaming Sanders' loss to Hillary on the southern blacks because without their en masse support of Hillary, Bernie would have won. That argument ignores all of the underlying reasons behind people's choice when they actually vote. That's basically what I think you are doing. And I have no idea why you would ignore underlying reasons driving the millions of non-xenophobes who voted Brexit.