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Originally Posted by redforever

When you marginalize people by treating them as lesser valued humans or for being non-millennials, call them uneducated (in many cases blue collar workers with a trade education that pays more than white collar university degrees), unfairly label people with socially unacceptable words, glorify political correctness… well sooner or later, the ones on the receiving end/ the silent majority, have their democratic say.

You have to try to understand why the average working class person dislikes the EU and why those reasons will never affect the Primrose Hill crowd. If you peel back the layers of the easy examples of xenophobia and racism in the UK, you'll find very scared, angry people. People who have jobs, who can put food on the table, who feel that politicians represent them, don't tend to lash out with vitriol and hatred.

This is the same phenomenon occurring in the USA with Donald Trump. The ordinary citizen is fed up with governance in their country and does not feel that the government represents them or addresses their needs.

Why do we have to handle the ignorant with kid gloves when they make ignorant statements or hold ignorant beliefs? Isn't that just another form of political correctness?