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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Cliff giving us hot takes from 2016.
Lesson from Brexit and Trump, don't trust politicians providing easy answers to complex problems. If they stoke nationalism, cast doubt on expertise, shout down rational debate, sloganeer, and appeal to people's xenophobia via culture wars nonsense, you are being taken for a ride.
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This was the big thing for me. Once you start seeing the slogans is immediately when the BS-O-Meter should be going off like a Geiger Counter at Chernobyl.
Boris Johnson's bus promising huge funding for the NHS instead of paying out to the EU?
Come on...Bull....
Shaming/Blaming Immigrants? The Flags dont come much 'redder.'
And it goes on and on.
Its like envisioning John Hurt giving a speach in 'V for Vendetta.'
"Stoking unbridled Nationalism and Scapegoating immigrants and minorities. This seems like sound policy!"