I want to end this year on a positive note. It has been a truly awful year: a year which saw the return of a form of fascism; a year which saw Britain voting to leave the european union and a complete psychopath elected as president of the united states. New Year’s Eve finds the world in a very dangerous situation. Yet, believe it or not, I feel kind of upbeat. I know this can’t last – it is a flash in the pan. For one thing, I don’t think we will end up leaving the EU. As others have noted (here for example) it basically can’t happen because the brexiteers want two mutually exclusive things. They want to stay in the single market, but not to have to obey the unions laws. But you can’t have it both ways – it simply doesn’t work like that. Brussels won’t allow it because it would make a mockery of the entire project. Outists try to tell us that they will be forced to give us our cake and eat it, as ”they need us more than we need them”; but that’s utter crap. There is no way they’d let us keep all the privileges of being in the EU while freeing ourselves of the responsibilities. It would set too much of a precedent; other countries will start demanding the same, and the whole project would descend into farce. Thus, faced with a choice of remaining part of the EU or completely fucking our economy by having to withdraw from the market, we’ll have no choice but to forget this moronic referendum ever happened and remain.
As for Trump, He won’t last either. I give him ’till summer, at best. By then the imbecile will have fucked up so royally that everyone will be demanding a proper, qualified president. The man has no idea what he is doing – he can’t run a country. His election was a joke which, sooner or later, everyone will get tired of. Then the arrogant buffoon will be forced to go, probably protesting bitterly. America will be embarrassed ever to have elected such a joke; fresh elections will be called, and hopefully a proper politician rather than an overprivalaged reality tv host will be elected.
Thus, even if we find ourselves in a dire situation right now, I don’t think it will last. This current storm will blow over. My faith in humanity is too much: I cannot see this stupidity prevailing for long. A dire year it may have been, but sooner or later, things will be back to normal, mark my words.
Happy new year everyone