The Illusion of Democracy in Britain With Update

About 40 years ago I read a book, it was by a man named Thucydides called "History of the Peloponnesian War". It is considered by some to be the first book focused on history. It was written about 2400 years ago. We had just come out of the Vietnam war when I read the book. Funny thing was, the claims made and rhetoric used during the Peloponnesian war were the same as were told to us by out politicians and generals.

I thought of that book today as I watched what happened in England regarding Brexit. Here is how things went down. Britain is part of the European Union (EU). What began as a free trade agreement became something more. The EU is becoming it's own nation eliminating restrictions between countries within it and making all the countries within it have to place EU law above their own. Currently half of the laws in Britain were written by the EU. The only time you see agreements like this is when a country lost a war and another country gets to write their laws. As this became clearer to the British, they decided to leave the EU and voted to do so in what is called Brexit. Lets be clear, unlike in America, in Britain a law can be directly voted on in a referendum. They voted to leave the EU.

For two years Britain and the EU have been working on a "deal" to leave. If no deal is reached, they just go back to being a sovereign nation. The Prime Minister of Britain, Theresa May, has brought back a proposed deal. The problem is that the deal forces Britain to accept all the EU rules, it doesn't change anything other than not allow Britain to vote in the EU. True taxation without representation. It basically puts Britain in the same position with the EU as America had with Britain prior to the American Revolution.

One might ask why any country would accept such a deal, it's not about the deal. It is about getting a second vote on leaving the EU. Parliament will bicker back and forth and be unable to come to a decision and the solution offered will be to put leaving the EU up for another vote. The choice will be between taking the deal or staying in the EU, as an alternative it will be between staying in the EU or leaving with no deal. This deal is not about leaving the EU, it is about whether to leave at all. The vote should be whether to accept the deal or leave the EU with no deal. They have already voted to leave the EU.

This is a show, all politics is theater. Giving up your sovereignty and democracy is easy, capitulate to another. Getting back your democracy and sovereignty is much harder. If the EU had it's proposed EU army, you just might see a civil war between the EU and Britain and the EU would lose because we would support Britain as would Australia and Canada. The EU could not count on help from Russia or China. In Europe Britain and France have nukes. They will not be launched to keep Britain in the EU. Britain will be allowed to leave the EU with no deal and will immediately try to have agreements with Canada, Australian and the United States and they will get them.

Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of  the United Kingdom of Great Britain  and Northern Ireland from the  European Union and the European  Atomic Energy Community. This is the actual document being presented regarding Brexit.

It is pretty simple kids, globalism means the end of democracy.