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As a general matter, I’m usually annoyed when foreigners comment on domestic American politics, as they tend to lack a proper frame of reference. Not to mention, they don’t get a vote. And so, as a matter of consistency, I’m somewhat reticent to address last night’s historic vote in the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union.

Whether such a withdrawal will be beneficial to England in the long term remains to be seen. There will be unintended consequences, either for good or ill, that we simply cannot foresee at this time. In the short term, uncertainty will almost certainly have some negative impact on the UK economy, and possibly that of the remaining EU nations.

What I have seen this morning is the usual collection of “elite” leftists proclaiming that those voting to leave the EU are nationalistic xenophobes who are racist racists.

Well, when you put it that way…

Why is it that so much of the left spends all its time lauding the wonders of foreign cultures, and demeaning their own?

The modern left is certain that colonialism, in particular that of the British Empire, is the Original Sin which may never be extirpated.

The funny thing is, however, at one point or another, virtually every inch of the globe has been colonized at one point or another, by one culture or another.

And if you take a look around the world today at the third world, you can very roughly divide it into those nations that were colonized by the British, the Spanish, or the French. Those places where the Spanish or French flag flew tend to be economic disasters, and rife with corruption and weak rule of law.

In contrast, those areas where the British once held sway (such as, say, the United States) tend to be rather more successful.

Maybe, just maybe, there is something to that British culture, with its long history of individual rights, due process, and representative government.

The obvious elephant in the room is immigration.  Anyone opposed to open borders is immediately branded a racist. And as we all know, the greatest villainy possible today is racism.

But for many average Englishmen, the unchecked flow of third world people into their country has led to quality of life issues, and increased competition for jobs, suppressed wages, and importantly, increased crime. When the average Englishman sees an immigrant come to the shores of Albion, and immediately demand social benefits (that is, the dole) and demand that the Englishman adapt to his culture, and not he to England’s, is it any wonder that resentment is fueled?

But the Englishman’s vote isn’t so much a protest against “the bloody wogs” as it is a protest against those in the political establishment who told him he was wrong, and indeed, immoral, for so much as raising the question as to whether importing tens of thousands of angry young men was a good idea.