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Originally Posted by ianch99
Ironically, it is naïve exceptionalism like this that is the major cause of the broken country we now have. We know who did it, we know how they did it and we know why they did it. It is a bit like the fruitless search for Brexit benefits: "Well, we haven't been invaded for centuries?" is one of the best reasons they can come up with. Desperate stuff.
The delusion of "transient issues" and the denial of the root causes behind them will just accelerate the decline. The poetic irony is that you can't now leave the UK as you once we're able to do, even if you wanted to  |
I got thinking about that final point during the afternoon. I do wonder if this was by design to prevent ‘brain drain’ just as East Germany put up the Berlin Wall. If the current trajectory of having among the largest economic decline and fall in living standards among developed nations - and a seeming absence of political will to reverse the decline - it’s not difficult to see how some might seek to move to a country with genuine pride in itself, a developed culture and identity, and importantly without a neurotic hangover from who it used to be.