Britain’s Exit from EU Foreshadows Wholesome Global Shake-Up
Migrants are on the move across the globe as images of a more pleasing consumer life come to even the poorest families on television. Western Europe watches helplessly as the Third World pushes past the little defended borders of the European Union.
Switzerland had the foresight to know what was coming and refused to join. Recently Britain was smart enough to get out before it was too late. Saved once again by the English Channel. It is a long-overdue “victory for ordinary decent people” says Nigel Farage of the British Independence Party, yet more evidence that the managerial elite of Central Europe will not go unchallenged.
The populist triumph of Trump in America further indicates that the establishment coalition is crumbling, despite a well-oiled media monopoly. Newt Gingrich has said that a Trump presidency will pull Britain and America closer together: “So Trump gets up this morning and says, ‘Anti-bureaucracy, anti-immigration, set your own destiny, fight for your own economic future and quit letting foreigners tell you what to do.’ That’s where Brexit works for him.” Trump has argued that without Britain, the newer eastward-defined EU will finally have to come to terms with its identity vis-a-vis the Russian Federation, keeping in mind that neither Russia nor eastern EU members have blindly opened their countries to unchecked immigration.
It’s a historical irony that the US had earlier sought its own independence from the British Empire. It might even be said that the European Union modeled itself after the US, with Brussels becoming the new Washington, DC. In this light, Brexit has become a renunciation of US-type federal control from an elite “palace” located in a distant metropolis. Look for a resurgence of British identity and nationalism, along with cultural and existential strengths that follow from a recaptured independence.
We can’t forget that the US could have joined the EU just as it is now a part of an impotent NATO, but it chose NOT to. Would we want EU members floating freely among our states? Do we want to surrender our sovereignty to the United Nations? It’s bad enough to look at how the identities of our individual states are now mockeries of what they once were under the Articles of Confederation. Perhaps there is still a chance for insignificant states like South Dakota to recapture their heritage and values now lost within an EU-like federalism.
