{"id":4071,"date":"2019-03-13T18:49:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T01:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2019-03-13T18:49:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T01:49:15","slug":"time-for-a-brexit-redo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4071","title":{"rendered":"Time for a Brexit Redo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First, the Leave campaign cheated.<\/strong> They lied, and they peddled foreign influence. Cheaters in sports get stripped of any titles their cheating played a role in. Why shouldn&#8217;t cheaters in politics suffer a similar fate, particularly given how the consequences of their cheating can be vastly more severe?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, decisions shouldn&#8217;t always be irrevocable.<\/strong> We&#8217;ve all done things we regret, only to back out as best we can and admit we were wrong for making what hindsight showed to be a wrong decision in the first place. Sure, <em>some<\/em> decisions are intrinsically hard to undo, but why should that be used as an excuse for making <em>all<\/em> decisions <em>artificially<\/em> difficult to undo?<\/p>\n<p>Hold another referendum. If it fails, try as hard as possible to shit-can the whole misadventure. In such a case, it&#8217;s likely the rest of the EU will go along with Britain&#8217;s wishes; the trade disruption caused by a Brexit would hurt the Continent, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the Leave campaign cheated. They lied, and they peddled foreign influence. Cheaters in sports get stripped of any titles their cheating played a role in. Why shouldn&#8217;t cheaters in politics suffer a similar fate, particularly given how the consequences of their cheating can be vastly more severe? Second, decisions shouldn&#8217;t always be irrevocable. We&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}