If the pro-leave posts in this thread have shown me anything. It's that basically they wanted to give a giant finger to everyone and all other consequences be damned? Is that the deal here or what? Because ignoring the immediate aftermath seems kind of fucked up right now.
I'm over here on the other side of the world watching market futures nervously because 1 million people wanted to say fuck you to David Cameron and some other politicians? Really?!
Yes, this iconoclasm has been in vogue in Europe for the last decade, it's just gotten louder in recent ones. But the first person to voice it here was Pim Fortuyn back in 2004-05. Similar parties and sentiments have been a part of European politics for a while now.
I mean, the absurdity of this 'politics against politics' phenomenon is that there is in fact an anti-EU party block within the EU parliament. Sure, it's representation, but a representation of what exactly? Our ability to repeat the mistakes of previous World Wars (disbanding democracy)?
And that might sound fear-mongerish, but unlike the US with its singular overriding identity, Europe is, and has always been, a barrel of gunpowder with a tiny fuse. The peace of Westfalen did not fix that, it delayed it (thankfully, because that's why we had a scientific revolution to begin with). The collapse and subsequent horrors of former Yugoslavia illustrated that all too well, unfortunately. Without the EU, Europe is nothing less than a nationalist nightmare. If that is where we're going, I'm outta here.