What the ever-loving fuck were you thinking?

[blamebrampton]

I know what it's like. I remember a couple of years back, spending weeks thinking 'Surely no-one could be stupid enough to vote for Tony Abbott?'

But the tragedy is that yes, they could, and the predictable disaster was even worse than we'd imagined.

What we learned from this is to never underestimate the lack of thought people can put into their vote, nor the stunning duplicity some political figures will practice in the service of their own self interest.

And while it is tempting to just look at the plummeting pound and adjust shopping and travelling plans, all the while cackling ruefully at the Leave voters who have been all over the news saying 'But I thought it was just a protest! I didn't think it would happen!' we should all learn from today.

I'm looking at you, Australia and the US. Ignore lies, ignore comedy, look to the social and economic futures of your countries and make your vote count rationally. And when it comes to economics, don't listen to anyone's smug words; look at the records, look at the numbers, look to the IMF and World Bank and your respective Treasuries, who are boring and more conservative than I would like, but who know the value of infrastructure and education.

I can't even be funny about any of this today. I have never seen such an appalling case of the older generations fucking the future of the young out of fear, self-interest and ignorance.

Comments

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

I honestly believed they would remain. I just didn't think people would believe the bullshit, you know? But I guess that's a case of hanging out with more liberal types and an example of the echo chamber of the internet... you surround yourself with like-mindeds. More fool me.

I'd like to think they're cherry-picking remorseful Leave voters who are saying that because HOW FUCKING STUPID can you be to say you voted for something but didn't think that the thing you voted for would happen? Do these people really not know how it works?

I want to hope that it will settle down and not be as bad as it seems right now. But I don't like the way the Right has owned this. I don't like it at all.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I heard it a lot with Abbott, too: 'I really hated Rudd, but I thought he would win, I just didn't want my vote to get him there.' And you end up standing there saying 'Look, I hear you, but for the love of tiny bunnies, could you not have just stood there and drawn the traditional cock and balls?'

I swear, when Farage made that crack about not a shot being fired, I was glad I was half a planet away, because I would have been arrested had I been in the room. Though I am small and nimble so might have got a hand to his throat first.

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

It's almost worse in this case -- they didn't even have to vote! It's a choice to go to a polling station. How could you not... I mean, I know there's always the whole 'oh, my vote won't count' but honestly. Gah.

when Farage made that crack about not a shot being fired, I was glad I was half a planet away

Grr, me too. What a fucking arse. She died A WEEK AGO. How can you be so stupidly thoughtless as to say something like this?