MRA-UK: Post-Traumatic Referendum Disorder

'Listen up, Remainiacs –

it’s not foreigners we have a problem with – it’s you.'

By William Collins: Let me confess immediately to being a hypocrite. I have previously expressed the view that it would be best not to let MHRM issues get bogged down in the quagmire of recriminations that is the post-referendum mayhem. Chalk me up as a backsliding toerag….but there is a common cause…..
My reason for voting for Brexit had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with immigration or the economy (you know, the only issues you ever heard mentioned on the BBC). It was entirely, 100%, the issue of democracy. Specifically it was about salvaging democracy in the UK from the profoundly anti-democratic EU.
I had not anticipated that the after-shock of the pro-Brexit outcome would provoke so graphic an illustration of how deeply the anti-democratic mindset has already captured the UK public. Just look at the evidence.
The reaction from the Remainiacs was to demand another referendum. The reason? They tell us that the result was a bad day for democracy. Why? Well, because democracy is supposed to come up with the Correct result. But it didn’t. It came up with the Incorrect result. So democracy has failed. You see?

In truth, a failure of democracy would be to ignore the majority vote. But for the Remainiacs, it is a failure of democracy to have an Incorrect outcome. So it is necessary to ignore the vote, i.e., to be anti-democratic, in order to restore democracy to its proper Correctness. Got it?
Staggeringly, about half our population seems unable to appreciate that democracy means rule in accord with the will of the majority. That is not their idea of democracy.
What we have here is a popular mindset produced by decades of being marinated in Political Correctness. Post-traumatic referendum disorder (PTRD) is demonstrating clearly for the first time just how profoundly antithetical Political Correctness is to democracy. You know, I had a sneaky suspicion it was.
In the minds of Correct Minded people, democracy has become conflated with the adoption of Correct Thought. This conflation arises because nice people are Correct, and nice people are democratic, therefore democracy is Correctness. They do not question whence this Correctness originates, because that in itself would be Incorrect. But if it comes to a choice between true democracy, rule by majority vote, and Correctness, the latter must be chosen, because otherwise one would be Incorrect, obviously. So the problem, clearly, is that too many members of the public have Incorrect opinions, and this is what needs to change.
This is why the Remainiacs were unmoved by the democracy issue in the debate: democracy is simply not important to them – only Correctness. And so the argument that the EU is undesirable because it is anti-democratic cuts no ice with them. The Remainiacs are true believers in rule by, as Jim Tate has put it, the “People Who Know Best”. That’ll be the European Commission.
Political Correctness works by replacing rational judgment with a sense of what feels right: replacing thinking with emotion. The methodology for instilling Correctness in a population is essentially negative. You might call it Repressive Tolerance. Whilst the positive aspects of Correct opinion do feature, it is the severely Incorrect nature of alternative opinion which is to the fore: a little carrot and a big stick. Dissident thought is mentally embedded as Incorrect by being imbued with moral repugnance. This is achieved by simple repetition and the no-platforming of alternative views. The moral reprehension of dissident opinion is achieved by shaming – as exemplified by the use of words like Racism, Islamophobia, Xenophobia, Bigotry, Misogyny, Intolerance, Inequality, Ableism, Elitism, etc.
Identity Politics serves the need of Political Correctness by multiplying the opportunities to be Incorrect. By increasing the number of groups towards which Correct opinion is obligatory, the scope for being Incorrect also increases. So there is an ever expanding scope for wielding the Stick of Shame, and public thought is herded into ever greater conformity and uniformity.
One of the symptoms of a mind taken over by Political Correctness is, in the context of the referendum, to declare that the vote for Brexit “made me feel physically sick”. This is not a rational response. This is a mental disorder. It is PTRD.
How well does the diagnosis of PTRD as Political Correctness stand up to scrutiny?

• If it’s a valid diagnosis, you would expect the middle class to be most badly affected. Tick.
• If it’s a valid diagnosis, you would expect women to be more affected than men (because men are intrinsically Incorrect). Tick.
• If it’s a valid diagnosis, you would expect the feminist-nationalist parties of Scotland and Wales to be more badly affected. Tick.
• If it’s a valid diagnosis, you would expect the young to be most badly affected (because they are, literally, schooled in PC – and have not yet had the time to discover an alternative viewpoint). Tick.

The abandonment of all pretence to be democratic is being illustrated in microcosm all over the place. The meltdown of the Labour Party is an example. The Labour MPs are pissed off that the Party masses have saddled them with a leader they don’t want. They feel entitled to get rid of him. Sod the democratic vote, the Labour MPs want to operate unfettered by that. Not just these Labour MPs, but the bulk of politicians, have failed to understand. The new political reality is that the majority of the public have now grasped that they are not represented, neither by the political process nor by the media. The people know now that the media are the handmaidens of the system – which is why Project Fear failed. Project Fear was just another shaming mechanism aimed at instilling Correctness.
Listen up, Remainiacs – it’s not foreigners we have a problem with – it’s you.

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