Interesting piece I saw earlier:
Why The Result? Passion Versus Smug Superiority
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I truly believe the result has come as a profound psychological shock to most Remainers. Hence the tirades of angry abuse ladled out today on FB and elsewhere.
Remainers have, for years, assumed their world view was almost universally held - it was "normal", "right", and "obvious" - and any nasty brutish oafs that raised the subject of immigration were a backward nasty minority of no more than maybe 20% - the ill-educated, racist, and bigoted - easily led types, not given to proper thinking, like WE are.
Because, of course, if those stupid Leavers had THOUGHT, at all, they would think like us, right? And see that the EU is the obvious way forward.
I believe most Remainers really thought they were going to win a majority of something like 78% Remain, 22% Leave. And therefore many did not feel strongly enough to turn out.
Now for Remainers to find out that your own - fondly assumed "majority" sensible humane views are actually a minority - that you only command 48% of those voting, and perhaps much lesser percentage of the electorate - 28% of whom weren't interested enough to turn out is a hell of a shcock when you truly believed you were part of an overwhelming majority of nearly 80%.
Now it may be that a good percentage of the non-voters were Remainers, who, thinking like I have outlined here, that they already had a socking majority, didn't feel they needed to vote.
Leavers, on the other hand, were absolutely passionate and determined that every last ONE of them would, come hell or high water, vote for what they believed in.
Why the different attitude?
Because they were heartily sick of their legitimate concerns being sneered at, derided, and brushed aside as irrelevant ramblings of the deluded or plain nasty.
Remainers do not, by and large, live in areas taken over by immigrants. This became crystal clear when looking at the maps of who voted for what today. The areas where Remain were in the majority were ALL if not wealthy, at least comfortably upper-middle-classly-off.
The more lower-class areas, those where immigrants tend to congregate for cheap housing and unskilled job availability, were Leavers to a man. And if the immigrants hadn;t got there yet, they didn;t WANT them, so voted Leave to stop their home area sliding down further.
It is a money map - the money says Remain, lack of money says Leave. That's because having money shields you from problems.
Remainers' jobs and careers are not threatened by a cheaper workforce underbidding their salaries on a daily basis.
They have NO idea what a Zero Hours contract is - and would be outraged if their comfortable middle-class salary, guaranteed to be the same each month, were suddenly changed to a variable amount, with NO guarantee that they would have ANYTHING in their bank at the end of the month to meet the mortgage and bills..
Those MP's who deride the Leavers should immediately be put onto such a regime, and see how THEY like it.
What has this to do with immigrants? Easy - if, as an employer, every job vacancy you have is overwhelmed by 100+ applicants desperate for ANY sort of work on any terms, can introduce such onerous terms. You can;t be underpaying - if you were, all these peo;le would not be clamouring at the gates to be taken on.
That is the situation in high-immigrant areas. Things are valued in the reverse to their abundance. If there is loads of something available, it is worth nothing (strawberries in August). If the item is scarce, the value shoots up. (strawberries in February!)
Large employers, like Amazon, and Sports Direct,(and even M&S's distribution centre) do NOT value their staff, they keep them at arms length, employing them through agencies or third parties on zero hours contracts. Anyone who makes waves in ANY way, is not given any more hours, and is forced to resign - but with no possibility of Unfair Dismissal. Why can they do this? Because for every person that quits, 100 are lined up to take his/her place! Why would you need to treat your staff better? You're obviously paying them enough - if you weren't - they wouldn't be queuing up to be taken on!.
The extreme pressure on schools and doctors surgeries in high-immigrant areas, where many cannot get an appointment for 4 weeks or more is a regular experience for Leavers. .
Remainers, needless to say, usually do not live in such an area, and can't understand what all the fuss is about. They can get a GP appointment is a few days. Their exclusive upper--middle class primary and secondary schools are not overrun with immigrants. They are academies, which can select or Faith schools, which can also select.
These weird people that complain about immigrants (the Remainers think) must be racists, there's no problem at all!
So, Leavers have been totally fed up with being derided and told their problems are imaginary - and that they are racist and bigoted for even raising them. They have been ignored and abused like this for years, by MP's Political parties, The BBC, the Guardian, Channel 4, and many other media outlets. Which tend to be staffed by people who fit the Remain profile.
Leavers saw this as their one chance to be heard and not drowned out by the Remain mindset (which controls the media).
They phoned each other, arranged lifts, organised proxy votes weeks ago for those who would be away or ill, and made sure that EVERYONE they knew turned out to a man (or woman) to vote Leave.
"Yes, you b*stards" (they thought), "THAT is for all the insults, derision, and smug superior attitudes you Remainers have pushed at us for years."
That explains the result.
Now, Remainers, you have to ruminate on this:
IF YOU HAD NOT BEEN SO AGGRESSIVE AND DERISORY TO ALL THOSE BADLY AFFECTED BY IMMIGRATION, you would not have made them so mad, and they would not have organised themselves so much better than you.
In your smug superior way, you thought you had a thumping natural majority. You didn't.
YOUR desisory attitudes and sneering air of superiority caused this.
Suck it up, buttercup!
