The esteemed British novelist Ian McEwan -- most honored for his novel Atonement -- demonstrated the usual mean-spirited leftist take on how the socialist view is always just seconds from overwhelming victory. The leftist paper The Guardian reported that at a crabby "Remain" conference in Westminster, McEwan proclaimed Brexit can be rejected soon in a second do-over referendum, since 1.5 million conservative or nationalist "oldsters" will soon be "freshly in their graves."
IAN McEWEN: A gang of angry old men, irritable even in victory, are shaping the future of the country against the inclinations of its youth...This country, like a depressed teenage self-harmer, takes out a razor to scour a forearm and now contemplates its own throat....By 2019 the country could be in a receptive mood: two and a half million over-eighteens, freshly franchised and mostly remainers; one and a half million oldsters, mostly Brexiters, freshly in their graves. [Laughter and applause.]
Those leftists really have superior compassion, hmm?
This isn't the first time the novelist has caused jaws to drop in his loathing for Brexit. In March he was forced to apologize to a Spanish audience after he compared the referendum to the Third Reich. That would be some gargantuan "fake news."
McEwen raged in this new speech. "Truly, Brexit has stirred something not heroic or celebratory or generous in the nation, but instead has coaxed into the light from some dark, damp places the lowest human impulses, from the small-minded to the mean-spirited to the murderous."
The novelist even called himself a "denialist," which is uncommon: "I belong to the smallest, saddest, most pessimist faction: I am a denialist. Almost a year on, I am still shaking my head in disbelief. I know it’s not helpful, but I don’t accept this near mystical, emotionally charged decision. I can’t believe it, and I reject it."
Armed with the usual leftist arrogance, he drew chuckles by saying the Remain side were "hobbled by a fatal attraction to rational argument rather than emotional appeals, we are a vast peaceable crowd, thoughtful, unhappy, leaderless, with meager political representation." In other words, you lost.
Rock musician Bob Geldof, honored over and over in the Eighties for organizing Band-Aid to fund food for the starving in Ethiopia, shared McEwan's meanness.
"I loved McEwan’s rejectionism. Anger is a great animus. I heard too much reasoned debate this morning. I resent those who voted Leave,” he said. Anger works better than reason! "There is too much hubris that infects the political class. F**k them."
[Hat tip: Robert S.]
