The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
The BrExit vote was caused by the same problem that enables Trump (and Sanders) to win so many votes.  The British Elites, like the Republic Elites are ignoring the pain caused to the working class through trade agreements and (in the case of BrExit) immigration from poorer parts of Europe.  In different ways the EU integration put an additional burden on the already struggling British working class.<p>As a specific example, the immigrants, who came to the UK for jobs drove down wages for the working class with additional competition while at the same time putting a lot of pressure on budgets for the National Health System and social services.<p>The British Elites ignored the complaints of the working class while not even increasing the budgets for social services and the National Health Service proportionate to the additional demand caused by immigration.<p>It is this total lack of sensitivity of the British Elite to their fellow citizens that caused the BrExit.<p>Similarly, the &quot;rise of Trump&quot; is because Paul Ryan, the billionaire Wall Street hedge fund owners, and other Republic Elites have totally ignored the feeling of the working class.  They have created trade policies which have &quot;exported&quot; American factory jobs while at the same time wanting to cut the social services that workers need precisely because of policies of elites (Republic and Democratic) to export their working class jobs.<p>For example, when Carrier air conditioners closed their Indiana factory and exported the jobs to Mexico, it was only Trump that complained repeatedly.  Not Paul Ryan, Not billionaire Paul Singer, not Cruz, not Jeb Bush, not Rubio.  The total cluelessness of the Republic Elite is why Trump won the nomination.<p>The rise of Sanders is because the Democratic elite refused to listen to among others, the young, for whom the cost of education has increased significantly and who are unable to buy homes, etc, because of rising student debt.<p>In the cases of the British Elites, the Republic and Democratic Elites, they all appear to care more for &quot;The City&quot; and Wall Street Bankers than they do working class citizens and the young who are attempting to start their lives as their parents had.