I don't know how the Democrats in Illinois do it but, when I joined the Cheboygan County Republicans back in '76, I wasn't on any payroll. Indeed, they charged me 20 bucks to join for one year. It started out when I ran unopposed for precinct delegate. I didn't know what a precinct delegate did, but I ran to help Reagan in the primary. When I got to the meeting, the chairman asked if I wanted to join the party, and I did. Then I found out that everybody else in the room was also a Reagan fan, but none of us could vote for him at the national convention because he didn't win in our county. I also found out that, if I ever wanted to be a precinct delegate again, I didn't need to get my name on the ballot. Since I was the only Republican Party member in my precinct, all I needed to do was show up at the meeting and ask for the job, which explains why I ran unopposed.
I guess I'm in favor of Brexit because it's a crack in the wall of globalism. I don't know why Trump and other Republicans are in favor of it, I thought they were all big fans of the global economy. The EU started out decades ago as free trade agreement called the European Common Market, and has since developed into a sort of United States of Europe. I didn't realize how far it had gone until one of my internet contacts in Ireland said something about Brussels telling them what to do. "Brussels?" said I, and she explained how Brussels was the capitol of the EU and had pretty well taken over the Irish government. She had mixed feelings about it. The EU had been pumping money into Ireland for years, which had helped their economy, but now some Irish people were upset about those "bastards in Brussels" telling them what to do. Not long after that, the EU started cropping up in the news because Greece, Spain, and Italy were going bankrupt and wanted the richer EU countries like Germany to bail them out. I don't know what happened in Italy and Spain but, last I heard, Greece and Germany were still arguing about it.
From what I have read over the years, the UK is one of the richer countries that is expected to bail out the poorer countries whenever they get into trouble, and the Brits are getting tired of doing that. Then there's the immigration thing. Apparently once an immigrant, legally or not, gets into one EU country, none of the other EU countries can keep them out of theirs. Europe is currently being over run with swarms of immigrants from the Mideast. Even before that started, some people have been saying for a long time that the British are in imminent danger of becoming a minority in their own country. Since the US is currently being over run by undesirable aliens, I can sympathize with the Brits trying to take their country back. Too bad the process is going to take several years to play out. By then it may be too late, for us as well as the Brits.
I apologize for the intrusion, as this may be the first comment *ever* to this blog. A while back Uncle Ken asked me if I could write, and mentioned the Institute and how it was an ongoing correspondence between childhood friends... Tried to catch up, reading all the entries from the beginning but the task was too daunting; decided then if I went back a few months I would be caught up, for all practical purposes, like jumping into a flowing river.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow. Brexit isn't a done deal, and I don't think it will be finalized. But! It *is* a wake-up call to the EU, and many issues will finally be addressed, chiefly immigration and the divine rule from Brussels. Maybe.
If this comment makes it through the filters there is more to be said, about many things. Gun control? I think good gun control means hitting your target.