BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY JUNE 27, 2016) — There will always be an England, although we can’t say the same for the USA. While America withers under the control of nefarious politicians-for-life, the voters across the pond smoked the British establishment and shocked the world Thursday when they decided to exit the European Union (EU) by a 52-48% count, or 17.4 million to 16.1 million. The vote makes sense for 10 reasons.

1. The United Kingdom is not part of the continent. It is separated by the English Channel, and in geopolitics and geo-history, that waterway has been more than symbolic. For example, it kept Hitler from invading after he took France in 1940.
2. Despite Wall Street’s panic, if cooler heads prevail and time does its planing of the economy’s splintered boards, America should not be much affected. U.S. trade with the UK amounts to less than 1% of our gross domestic product.
3. It put “The People” in charge. That’s THE PLANET’s favorite outcome of this historic vote. The British Harumph Rumphs, what we called The Suits, heavily pushed for remaining in the EU. They poured money into “throwing the game.” Britain’s Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski, Shirley and Colin Quimby, however, had other ideas. So who has the better democracy? Britain, which allowed citizens to vote on the fate of the nation, or Pittsfield, Mass., which refused to let its people vote on spending $200 million for a new school that is as unaffordable as it is unneeded?
4. The outcome of Brexit benefits Donald Trump, who just happened to be in Scotland on the day of the vote (he owns several golf courses there). The sore losers in the Mainstream Media called the British vote one for “nativism, populism, and me-firstism.” Actually, the vote displayed how righteous anger, well channeled and independently expressed in the voting booth, can trump every rotten plan our hideous politicians launch to benefit themselves and, more importantly, their masters. This form of populism is catchy, and in the fall, the Trump campaign will tap into this Comstock Lode of presidential politics. In a campaign message to THE PLANET, Trump praised the Brexit tally, linking it to his own campaign: “I am fighting to upend the failed Big Government status quo in Washington, so that Americans can start believing in the future of our country again. And if elected President of the United States, I will strengthen our ties with a free and independent Britain.”
5. The Brexit vote can be viewed as an anti-terrorism and anti-illegal immigration decision. The insanity in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq (thank you Bush Lite and Obama), Eritrea, and endemic poverty elsewhere has driven thousands of refugees into the UK. The votee re-establishes Britain as its own arbiter on immigration. It no longer must abide by EU mandates.
6. The outcome, according to a report by Yahoo! Finance, caused Millennials fits. What’s not to love pissing off these self-indulgent slackers, “The World Owes Me a Living” types who have been brought up receiving trophies and ribbons not for achievement but to appease their temper tantrums when they realize that not all are geniuses and it is not the norm to write your first symphony by the age of three. Millennials blamed everyone else but themselves for not getting the result they wanted, but they failed to vote at twice the rate than those 50 and older.
7. The EU has been a debacle. It has taken autonomy out of local national control, created a corrupt and top-heavy bureaucracy for the elites, and has long tried to protect itself from involvement by ordinary citizens. In other words, an organization designed along the lines of the current Pittsfield School Department has no other option but failure.
8. The vote could inspire the U.S. electorate to storm November with a record turnout. There’s no question the corrupt Hillary Clinton campaign can only win with low turnout. A record vote will benefit Trump and third party candidates Gary Johnson (running with Bill Weld), Libertarian, and Green Party nominee Jill Stein.
9. Is Texit next? Texas, a soverign nation in the mid-19th century, has a $1.6 trillion economy. As a nation, it would rank #10. The Texas Nationalist Movement has officially asked Gov. George Abbott to allow Texans a vote of secession for independence.
10. Brexit is the ultimate bitch-slap for what Trump called “corrupt career politicians.”

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Pittsfield citizens have long been beaten down by the gutless wonders THE PLANET calls The Suits. That fight is over, but isn’t it nice to see the British electorate exemplifying “the possible” in rigged “representative” politics.

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“Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a raise it’s no surprise that they’re giving none away.” — Pink Floyd (Lawson), “Money,” from the Dark Side of the Moon album.

“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”

LOVE TO ALL.

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