Everyone I know is shocked and confused by the Brexit vote, and we are beginning to realize we didn't pay enough attention to what it was all about, and what the ramifications of leaving the EU might be. Now we are terrified that our fall election could end up being a shocker, with our country officially divided and chaotic. Yes, indeedy, these are dark times.
I personally feel I didn't wish to inform myself well enough about Brexit, though there is nothing I could have done about the outcome. But the people who were for it I kind of dismissed, and I see that was stupid and insensitive of me. These are people in real pain, fearful, with stagnant wages and little future, who have been bypassed by the elite educated and tech savvy upper middle class. They are suffering here as well, and that is something Bernie Saunders spoke to, and we turn a deaf ear to them at our peril, and to the risk of the health of the nation.
The widening gap between the wealthy and the struggling has widened more and more, and this is a distress call. We cannot ignore the jobs issue any longer. If we do, we will be saddled with an unfit, unwise president who is not the material for such a task. We better be terrified now, or we certainly will be later.
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