Thoughts on the sociology of Brexit
True, the BrExit echoes the feeling of a working class who have been marginalized by the leadership who said they would represent the will of the people.  True of Trump supporters and Sanders supporters.<p>I spent a bit of time reading about the political and media elites in Britain ignoring the plight of the working class.<p>1.  Apparently, the British people never had a referendum to join the EU.  The elites decided for them.<p>2.  Unlike the leadership of our &quot;union&quot; the United States, the leadership of the EU have not been given a mandate to lead by the voters.<p>3.  20 years ago there were 0.9 million immigrants in the UK, now 3.3 million.<p>4.  Prime Minster Cameron said he would reduce the yearly 330,000 immigration rate to 10,000 or so and he broke his word.  Had he done what he said he&#x27;d do, BrExit may not have (probably?) would not have happened.<p>5.  Apparently these immigrants get four years of social support.  The social systems are stressed as is the National Health Service.  Of course, the elites can choose to use the private Harley Street doctors, something the working class would be unable to do.<p>6.  Cameron did not have to call the BrExit referendum, but chose to call it because of his hubris thinking that it could not possibly win.<p>The British political elite like their American counterparts have refused to hear the suffering of their citizens.  They have been marginalized by elites who lack empathy.<p>Instead of listening to the voters, the political and media elites simply berate those who do respond such as Trump.  They call Trump a racist because he is against illegal immigration.  He has never said he is against Mexicans who have legally immigrated to the US.<p>In the US, the media elite also refuses to use the correct phrasing of illegal immigrant and using the term &quot;undocumented&quot; which is bad reporting because the correct term is illegal.