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Brexit finally got done at 23:00 GMT on 31st December 2020 when the UK's Withdrawal Agreement with the EU finally expired. A "trade deal" between the UK and EU was agreed on 24th December. The Alt-Wrong finally got their prize of freedom, democracy and British sovereignty.
What did they actually win? Chaos at the ports, thousands of tonnes of fish that can't be sold, tariffs, duties, and all sorts of things which were once Project Fear and the undemocratic, treasonous lies of the Liberal Metropolitan Elite, Socialists, Marxists, quislings, traitors, lefties and people who hate their country. Socialism, Marxism, EUSSR, Venezuela, toilet paper!
We are on the third week of this glorious new future of sunlit uplands with no downsides, only upsides with much more to look forward to. And Donald Trump is going to give us a fantastic trade deal with the USA straight away.
Over at the Guardian, Polly Toynbee has an excellent summary entitled Brexiters are waking up to the damage they've done.
As Brexiters turn on each other, Brexit politics move fast. Until now the Tories planned to move on, only reviving “Brexit done” triumphalism to re-arouse the captured red wall at the election: Labour just wanted to bury the whole issue.
The Westminster system has failed us (the UK). We are now looking at Irish Reunification and Scottish Independence. Gibraltar has already got its own deal where it gets to join Schengen.
We have Taken Back Control(TM).
(Score: 2) by Socrastotle on Wednesday January 20 2021, @03:36PM
Wokeness in its modern form is a pattern carried out in various countries that have tried to implement Marxist ideals - most notably (though not the only) would be the Soviet Union and China. Whereas Marxism is (in theory) the notion that everybody should be economically equal, wokeness is the cultural equivalent. It achieves the pursuit of cultural equality by arguing that any preexisting culture was wrong (by some interpretation or another) and then thus destroying it to be replaced with the new homogeneous culture. Hence statue tumbling, 'purification' of 'problematic' references to the past, Google promoting 'unthanksgiving day', and so on.
China's cultural purification was much more overt since they had leadership that were able to freely express their ideology. So see things like Destruction of Four Olds [wikipedia.org] campaign. The "Four Olds" in this case: were old culture, old habits, old customs, and old ideas. It started off similar to own with little more than renaming campaigns and the occasional toppling of a statue or whatever, but by the end they were engaging in widescale "purification" of China's thousands of cultural heritage sites. It was not a travesty not only against the Chinese people but the world. China has a direct history far longer than anywhere in the western world with a continuation going back thousands of years. This "purification" destroyed an unimaginable amount of not only their cultural heritage but really of *our* cultural heritage as humans.
And then we get into things like struggle sessions [wikipedia.org] which are likely coming to America soon under the guise of justice. And that is "wokeness" for you.
The problem with wokeness is what happens with any ideology that lets people think themselves 'holier than thou.' I think people are generally, inherently, good. But let them become self righteous and convince themselves that they're fighting the devil, and they will all too happily turn into the very monsters they've convinced themselves they're fighting against.