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Brexit is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions

 Glenn Greenwald - The Intercept
Corrupt elites always try to persuade people to continue to submit to their dominance in exchange for protection from forces that are even worse. That’s their game. But at some point, they themselves, and their prevailing order, become so destructive, so deceitful, so toxic, that their victims are willing to gamble that the alternatives will not be worse, or at least, they decide to embrace the satisfaction of spitting in the faces of those who have displayed nothing but contempt and condescension for them.
Just another way of saying, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
The dream of the EU was beautiful, but the way it was implemented has become a nightmare for millions of people.
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