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{"id":35085,"date":"2016-11-04T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.occasionalplanet.org\/?p=35085"},"modified":"2018-04-17T10:02:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T15:02:11","slug":"35085","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2016\/11\/04\/35085\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit, Colombia, Trump, and the threat of the unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"
This year pre-Brexit, polls in Britain were equivocal. Would Britain continue as a member of the European Community? Nobody knew. However, in the weeks before the referendum, the late polls indicated Remain<\/em> winning. The polls seduced voters into believing that the country would continue as a member of the EU. Many voters just didn\u2019t feel the need to vote.<\/p>\n
The results of the referendum were shocking for many of voters and non-voters alike.The morning after the British population voted for separation from the EU disorientated millions of Brits. Many woke up and went about their day in a dazed state. Months later, many still do. What happened?<\/p>\n
Seemingly contrary to common logic, the majority of British voters decided to opt out of the European Community. And many didn\u2019t feel the need to vote. Brexit won the day.<\/p>\n
In the US, at a distance, we wondered what was going on. But in the U.S., we are far away. We shrugged. We moved on. The other side of the pond! The polls? Who knows what gives, what gave with that?<\/p>\n
On our side of the world, the government of Colombia, a country convulsed by guerrilla violence for more than 50 years, spent the last 4 of those years negotiating the nitty-gritty details of a peace agreement with the country\u2019s largest guerrilla group, the FARC. The going was tough \u2013 to put it mildly, but an accord was agreed upon.<\/a><\/p>\n