HyperNormalisation Page #16

Our politicians, I'm afraid, haven't had the guts.

APPLAUSE:

This could be the great Trojan horse of all time,

because you look at the migration...

Study it, look at it.

Now they'll start infiltrating

with women and children.

Both the Brexit campaign in Britain

and Donald Trump in America

did exactly what al-Suri had predicted.

They used the fear to dramatise

a world where everything -

even going to a restaurant -

had become a risky event.

And what had been seen as doomed

campaigns on the fringes of society

that could never win became frighteningly real.

I am genuinely freaked out right

now about this whole Brexit thing.

Because we'd all been told that

it wasn't going to happen,

like it was going away, it was

going away from Brexiting

and on to the staying.

And because I had this, like bedrock belief...

I have friends who, like, live and work in London,

and they said, "Don't worry,

we're a very sensible people."

LAUGHTER:

"This isn't going to happen. It's a lot of talk,

"but we don't do that sort of stuff here."

Um... they were wrong.

LAUGHTER:

And that really kind of crushes my view of,

like, what can happen that is bad

that we don't think is going to happen.

Like it's just not supposed to happen.

CROWD GASPS:

CLANKING:

DRIPPING:

CLANKING:

I fear that we are watching

the stirrings of fascism in Europe again.

And I genuinely never thought

it would be my country

that did that.

I thought this would be America.

I thought America was the people

who were so filled with hate.

Not us.

And I'm so disappointed.

I'm so hurt.

Zee.

MUSIC:
Standing Room Only by Barbara Mandrell.

You must think my bed's a bus stop

The way you come and go

HE COUGHS:

I ain't seen you with the lights on

Two nights in a row

So pack your rusty razor

Don't bother with goodbye

Your cup runneth open

But mine is always dry

Standing room only

I can't stand no more

Standing room only

Outside my door

Don't help me set the table

Cos now there's one less place

I won't lay Mama's silver

For a man who won't say grace

If home is where the heart is...

This is my right to free speech going on here, OK?

Then your home's on the streets

Me, I'll read a good book

Turn out the lights and go to sleep

Standing room only

I can't stand no more, no more

Standing room only

Outside my door...

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