cliveb wrote: > Are you referring to Peter Belt? Yep, he is a certifiable fruitcake. > > > Now you're on very shaky ground. Are you suggesting that anyone who > thinks Britain should leave the EU is stupid? >
When I listen to them speak, they sound a lot like Trump supporters here in the US. > > As a Brit being bombarded with propaganda from both sides, I can assure > you of this: nobody really knows what will happen if we do leave. > What can be said that nobody knows 100% of what will change, but any number of things that are part and parcel of the Brexit will of course happen quite assuredly. > > It's possible that leaving the EU could be good for Britain. Or not. > The British public has no actual facts upon which to base their vote - > only partisan claims on both sides. We are basically being asked to vote > on what is probably the most important decision for us since WW2 without > anyone really having a clue. > That's a very UK centric-view. Considering the effects of a Brexit on the rest of the world seems to be beyond many people's mental powers. There was a point in time when the US could have organized itself like Europe was - a whole passel of selfish little relatively powerless independent states. Moving away from that seems to have been a wonderful idea for us. I can only guess what would happen if all of the states that I routinely pass through without fuss or bother were independent states with 100% of their all their own laws, government, armies, currency, language, guarded boarders, etc. It would be a gigantic wasteful hassle and for what? We do have a little of that going on, but it is sharply attenuated. > > On the other hand, perhaps you are suggesting that even allowing an > uninformed public to vote on the matter is stupid. Problem is, that this > is how democracy works, and we've yet to find a better system of > government. > That seems to be your own idea, and I'm happy to ignore and let you try to make sense out of. > > Or maybe it's some other aspect of the process that you find stupid - in > which case please let us know. My view is that the EU was a good idea as far as it was implemented. The more the concept of united states you implement in its time, the better. No need to go backwards to test to see how good of an idea the EU as it is now was. Unfortunately, xenophobia seems to be growing in style. Allowing immigration can solve a lot of problems. Look at Canada. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105572 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
