Do let me recommend chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/ again, as he attempts to deal with the very attitude of leave voters that we have discussed above. He says:
Ever since the Referendum it seems as if Brexiters have both expected and needed those who disagreed with them to recant and to acknowledge that, after all, Brexiters had been right.
He points out that remain voters also try convince to leave voters that they made a mistake. However, he does not believe - as I said some days ago - that if we had stayed in the EU people would have been trying to convince leave voters to change their stance. Elsewhere he quotes a letter to the Times asking for unity “we should all of us be looking forward to the future and how we can now help our country succeed. This includes ‘remoaners’ who wish to wallow in the past.” This is so like the comments we see on here. Who writes such things and thinks they will bring unity?
He goes on to say Several factors lie behind this Brexiter need for affirmation. He suggests that these include insecurity, a lurking knowledge that what they have brought about is so damaging, and some ‘remainer negativity’ which has soured what was supposed to be a moment of triumph. He also suggests that some leave voters believe themselves to have been a ‘resistance’ movement that has enacted a national liberation, they expected the whole of the country to welcome it and cannot see why they don't. And for some of the most vociferous Brexiters that links to a populist authoritarianism, in which opponents are derided as traitors and saboteurs. This is where we come to what appears to be a demand for support of Brexit even going as far as equating the mob at the Capitol with those who campaigned peacefully for a second referendum
He continues Apart from being a morally contemptible and intellectually vacuous false equivalence, it is hardly likely to engender ‘togetherness’ and is ironic given that it was Nigel Farage who once threatened to “pick up a rifle” if a “proper Brexit” was not delivered, and that numerous Brexiters talked of riots and civil disorder in the event of another referendum. And, in case anyone has forgotten, the only example of lethal violence in relation to Brexit was the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox by a far-right terrorist.
It is certainly worth reading the full article. I think he is right in as much as we will not achieve any "coming together" while suggestions for such a thing are design to split people into two camps.
