I also wanted to start a Brexit thread. Good idea, Pipa!
I would like to know how British evo-webbers have voted and why.
Personally i'm very disappointed that the British people voted for the Brexit, although i can understand them.
This European Union has become an undemocratic moloch, that is far too bureacratic. People in Ivory towers in Brussels make decions that influence all the people all over Europe and the EU only seems an economic Unoin and not a social.
On top of that, Brittain was Always 'different' (that is one of the things that attract me to Brittain, when i write 'different', i see it as something positive). Still, when i hear somebody like Nigel Farage, i become somewhat afraid.
I'm gonna write something very controversial.
IMO the biggest mistake the EU made was to open up for the Easter European countries after the fall of the Iron curtain in 1989. I think the western countries did that to prevent people from eastern Europe migrating to the West. In practice, this hasn't worked.
Perhaps they should have waited longer befor opening up to those countries. I might be wrong but i have a feeling that those countries and their citizens don't have the democratic traditions 'we' have. This makes it very difficult to discuss on the same level (it seems as if i think that 'we' are on a higher level than 'they' are, that is not true at all). I also think the cultural differences are too big.
When i hear people like Orban or the Polish twins that once ruled there...their discourse is so different from what we hear from our politicians (and lest's be honest, our leaders are not necessarily better, far from that).
I hope this isn't seen as being racist, it isn't meant to be like that in the least, but something in the Eu isn't functioning. This is caused by a democratic deficit but also because the cultural differences seem too big to me. But perhaps there is no alternative.
I hope people like Pipa and other people from countries like Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Craotia and others don't feel offended. What i wrote wasn't meant to be offensive and i don't feel superior at all...just very different...
