Today, the people of the United Kingdom made the sane, healthy, and democratic decision to leave the European Union as soon as possible, and I applaud them for it.
In truth, I don't know that much about the European Union, and frankly, I don't need to. Nation states exist to protect individual people, nurture culture, foster friendly economic competition and healthy differentiation among mankind. Like individual people, the can form alliances, have disputes, join or separate as wanted. If Britain and France wanted to merge into one big nation, then awesome. The whole continent of Europe as one big country, merged voluntarily, capital at Aix-la-Chapelle like in the good old days? Sure, have at it, guys, why not? Pretzels, bordeaux, and stout for everyone. But that's not what the European Union is. Obviously, what the EU is instead is an overly buearucratized mess, which has more than 10,000 officials who earn more than Britain's Prime Minister.
On a semi-related note, I don't think the discipline of macroeconomics should exist as a formal field of study because they're always wrong. Just throwing that out there because I've been meaning to say it for a while.
Responding to a book called "A Hundred Authors Against Einstein," the physicist himself said, "if they were right, one would have been enough." So it is for those who thought Britain "needed" to remain in the EU. Britons were subject to a malingering parade of phonies, including a certain POTUS, who mixed fake facts with threats, which amounted to "Leaving the EU is bad because we'll make it bad for you." Britons, showing their stalwart side once again, ignored these folks.
Hopefully, the United Nations is the next near-useless, supra-national amalgam to lose a member country with the word "United" in its name.
