Category: #Brexit

Totalitarian Leftist Profile #123

The more I watch the aftermath of the recent British election, the more I realize how powerfully compelling Boris Johnson’s fiercest opponents were to help him get elected. Case in point is an outspoken feminist “journalist” named Laurie Penny who just can’t stop talking. She’s an outspoken SJW who loves to call anyone she disagrees with a fascist. She only believes in free speech she deems to be acceptable. Here’s a little sampling of her “brilliant” post-election reportage:

Being angry and disappointed in your fellow citizens is not the same as thinking they’re evil, and it’s not the same as wishing them harm. I don’t want to see anyone locked in a cage at the border or dying in a homeless shelter or watching their kids going hungry just because I happen to find their opinions distasteful. I don’t want those things to happen to anyone. As a dear friend wrote on Facebook, I can wish no worse on those people than that they will one day understand the consequences of their actions and be obliged to live with them. But honestly, nobody deserves what’s coming.

Much like a religious cult member, she can’t accept that there’s anything other than Her Truth, Her Facts, Her Reality Bubble. Dare disagree, even a little, and you’re immediately deemed to be misguided at best and pure evil at worst.

Sargon has more:

The 5 Stages of Grief: Stuck on ‘Denial’!

The Five Stages of Grief are: Denial > Anger > Bargaining > Depression > Acceptance

This is clearly the case of the Socialist/Communist leaders of the UK Labour Party:

It seems impossible that the high priests and priestesses of Britain’s Radical, Hateful Left will ever move onto “Bargaining” or “Acceptance” so the only question is: When will more moderate, saner minds seize back control of the Labour Party? Prediction: Not until 2026-27.

The Revenge of Democracy

So now we know. Now we know what happens when you declare war on democracy. Now we know the consequences of demeaning the largest democratic vote in a nation’s history. Now we know what becomes of a political class that sneers at voters, silences their democratic voice, and libels them as racist, xenophobic know-nothings who cannot be trusted with stewardship of the nation. You get punished. You get rebelled against. You get replaced. Last night, in those extraordinary election results, we witnessed the revenge of democracy.

This from a superb post-election editorial by Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill. Podcast here.

American elites, on the Left and the Right, should recognize this as a warning about their own arrogance. But they won’t.

Brexit: UK Election 2019

Polls are closed, The Election Watch Party is open!

Update: Live coverage from Sargon of Akkad (language advisory)     Live coverage from the BBC

With exit polls suggesting a Johnson landslide, Twitter is in leftist meltdown.

Results tracker here.

UPDATE: And it begins!

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