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The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked
A shadowy operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign heavily influenced the result of the EU referendum. Is our electoral process still fit for purpose?
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This hasn't been a question for a long time.
The beginnings? This guy must have been living under a rock for the last 10 years.
The problem, though, is not so much the manipulation of the electorate, this has always happened and will always happen in any system where people vote to elect a government. The real problem is that there is, in fact, no real election.
She's a patrician Welsh novelist out to cement a particular public perception. She has to start where the marks are before she can lead them down the garden path. If she started right in assuming the lizard people run our otherwise-perfect, frictionless and equal political system, there'd be nothing left for the last acts. Form; her plot; and the storytelling to convince the plebes that populist election victories are illegitimate consequences of evil, foreign schemes; require her to slowly, slowly, introduce her most masterful and insidious villains. Otherwise the outcome of a democratic referendum cannot be transmuted into 'Fake News,' a term of art for things you'd rather people not know as such.
So I guess snapzu is going to be just as politically opinionated as reddit...
Sigh.
News is news.