It's a light week in terms of actual athletics news so I'm searching far and wide for links for the hompeage this morning. I came across an article in The Independent where British journalist Tom Peck talks about how things have changed so much since the 2012 Olympics.
I couldn't believe how negative he was. Check this line out.
"We were on our way to becoming bitterly divided, politically banjaxed and an international laughing stock. A basket case of a country, hopelessly broken in two by dint of having asked itself a profound question, and returning an answer that has broken all before it."
Jon, do you agree?
Can someone tell how in the world Britain is viewed as "international laughing stock?"
I did find the article interesting in the sense that hesays the Conservative Party's rise was the result of Cameron " delivering the most brutal cuts to the parts of the country that were in the deepest need, on the grounds that they would never vote Conservative anyway." That reminds me of HIlary ignoring the rust-belt blue collar workers and they voted for Trump as a result.
To me, though the article misses one key point. He's talking about the pride that the Olympics gave the country. Yes, people like to feel a part of something. They like to have a tribe.
So is it crazy to think people are going to want to put a border around their own country, not melt their tribe with all of Europe? The very same feeling that made the Brits enjoy their Olympic success so much is why many of them voted for Brexit. They want to be a part of a unique team not a single European team.
I don't want to get political here but it amazes me that so many writers/politicians can't understand that the open-borders/one Europe type people are fighting against human nature where we're in tiny little clans throughout history. Intellectuals can argue we'd be better off if we were all part of "Team World" but all I'm trying to show is you are fighting human nature.