BTW, I’m with you entirely on the ‘expert’ thing. Anti-intellectualism exists, but isn’t much help here.
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Replying to @SaintTzu @gregstevens
Its a major causal factor. Disregarding experts. Populism.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @gregstevens
I mean helpful to resolving the referendum issues, not ‘helpful to your point/argument’. :-)
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Replying to @SaintTzu @gregstevens
I see. I went with experts in the end coz simply couldn't evaluate it all.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @gregstevens
I get that. I think some went against the experts because the experts were telling them their issues weren’t real.
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Replying to @SaintTzu @gregstevens
Yes, it is an emotional thing. My mum & dad voted leave. It was all abt nostalgia for a past that is gone.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @gregstevens
That, yes. I can see some of the immigration issue as well. Germany is facing serious long-term troubles. >
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> And at the time, *any* concern about it was brushed aside as some sort of bigotry. (which also exists, of course)
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Replying to @SaintTzu @gregstevens
Oh, I know why ppl are going for extreme, nationalist populist solutions. The left bears much blame for that.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @gregstevens
It seems to me, from way over here, that there’s an opening for someone to claim the excluded middle and win big.
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This is what I keep arguing for. The centre-left & centre-right to unite & push out the extremists.pic.twitter.com/kyEnMDjrxz
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