{"id":4954,"date":"2016-06-25T11:17:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T18:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=4954"},"modified":"2016-06-25T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T18:22:28","slug":"brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=4954","title":{"rendered":"Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"

As most of you know, Britain has recently voted in a referendum<\/a> to leave the European Union. We stayed up the latest we have yet in Arizona to find out the results, which\u00a0were extremely surprising on one count and extremely predictable on another. We didn’t expect leave to win. The whole political establishment, \u00a0all the major political parties, had been pushing remain so strongly that I really though that would scare enough people into voting remain that it would go that way. I am pretty sure David Cameron, current prime minister and pro-remain campaigner, only allowed the vote at all because he thought they would vote remain with the government having the time to change the mood just enough to get the\u00a0remain result he and his party wanted.<\/p>\n

\"BREXIT\"<\/p>\n

The thing that didn’t surprise us at all was it being very, very close. This seems to be a somewhat\u00a0recent and horrible feature of modern politics. Just after an election, one half of the country is horribly angry and the other half things they are about to get what they want. ‘The country’ in this case is Britain, but it could have easily been the US or another country all together. Elections have been close and unsatisfying for the last few decades on both sides of the pond. I can’t remember the last landslide vote on anything.<\/p>\n

Here is the video of our reaction to the vote as the results came in:<\/p>\n