The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling!

The world is ending, the global economy is going to disintegrate, and Britain will surely fall into a primeval state of regression — all because of the United Kingdom’s exodus from the European Union last week. Or so the media at large and the Establishment would have you believe.

Ever since the U.K. voted 51.9 percent to 48.1 percent to exit from the E.U. on June 23, politicians and globalist onlookers from across the globe have been bemoaning and bewailing the British voters’ choice to embrace the Brexit option.

“Add those things together — the shock impact, the uncertainty impact, the trade impact — and you put a bomb under our economy.”

Claiming the outcome reeks of xenophobia, racism, fear, and hatred against immigrants, these critics also predict that the U.K. will crumble internally and become a laughingstock among other countries as it begins the Brexit process. This hyperbolic, fear-mongering rhetoric eerily parallels the style of attacks that has been used in an attempt to discredit the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee.

Grim warnings of economic doom, in particular, have also followed the same trend.

“Don’t throw away your job, don’t throw away your children’s futures, don’t throw away the strength and future of our country on the basis of misleading statistics peddled by a campaign determined to say anything and indeed everything to get the outcome they want,” U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said back in early June. “Add those things together — the shock impact, the uncertainty impact, the trade impact — and you put a bomb under our economy. And the worst thing is we’d have lit the fuse ourselves.”

Likewise, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has been labeling a Donald Trump presidency as an event that would bring economic disaster to the U.S.

“Imagine [Donald Trump] being in charge when your jobs and savings are at stake. Imagine him trying to figure out what to do in case of an emergency,” Clinton told attendees at a rally in Cincinnati on Monday. “So it’s no wonder, is it, that risk analysts listed Donald Trump — a Donald Trump presidency — as one of the top threats facing the global economy, ahead of terrorism.”

The hysterical predictions of economic calamity, covering over globalists’ fear of losing their stranglehold on power, is only matched by the degree of disdain anti-Brexiters and anti-Trumpers have both shown those on the other side.

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“The privilege of democracy is to vote, to campaign vigorously, to have robust and firm discussion. It is not a privilege of democracy to express hatred, to use division as an excuse for prejudice and for hate-filled attacks,” Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, said on Monday, according to The Guardian. “We’ve seen a sharp increase in those in the last few days. Somehow people who were already of evil will — and I’m not blaming the Leave campaign, I want to be quite clear about that — but people who were of evil will are using this as an excuse, a mere sham, for their hatred to be expressed.”

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden explicitly made the connection between Trump and the Brexit supporters’ supposed xenophobia when he denounced “reactionary politicians and demagogues peddling xenophobia, nationalism, and isolationism.”

“We see it in Europe and around the world,” Biden said during a speech in Ireland on Friday. “And we see it today in the United States, where some politicians find it convenient to scapegoat immigrants instead of welcoming them, play to our fears rather than appeal to our better natures, divide us based on religion or ethnicity rather than unite us in our common humanity, and build walls between nations when we should be building bridges among us.”

Adam Holloway, a conservative British member of Parliament who supported Brexit, blasted both the pre-Brexit and post-vote divisive rhetoric from the globalist camp Tuesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

“I don’t know where all this sort of doom and gloom is coming from — particularly, as you suggest, from the media … as if the sky had fallen in!” Holloway said, “I mean look: This is a fabulous opportunity for the U.K.”

“We don’t want to be xenophobic. We want to look out and to welcome the world, but we want to do so under our control — not the control of 27 of our neighbors,” Holloway said.

The tolerant, the enlightened, the sophisticated elites of course at least reacted to the loss of the Brexit vote with dignity and calm. Post-leave rhetoric has involved predictions that the U.K. must begin its exit negotiations immediately so it can leave the E.U. as soon as possible. Some have warned that trade deals will crumble, and others believe that the U.K. will never be able to return to the E.U., saying that the Brexit vote is permanently irreversible.

“I will leave it certain that, despite its frustrations, our membership was good for our place in the world and good for our economy,” British E.U. Commissioner Lord Jonathan Hill said in a statement last week after announcing his resignation. “But what is done cannot be undone and now we have to get on with making our new relationship with Europe work as well as possible.”

Others worry about the impact that the Brexit vote will have on the U.K.’s global status — as well as that of the English language.

“We have a regulation … where every EU country has the right to notify one official language,” Danuta Hübner, the head of the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee (AFCO), said on Monday. “The Irish have notified Gaelic, and the Maltese have notified Maltese, so you have only the U.K. notifying English … If we don’t have the U.K., we don’t have English.”

But then there are others who warn against this negative rhetoric.

“The whole point about us wanting to leave the European Union is so that we can take back control of this country, decide who comes in and out, and be open to the world. And to tell working-class British people that they can no longer have control over their destinies is quite wrong,” Holloway said.

“We don’t want to be xenophobic. We want to look out and to welcome the world, but we want to do so under our control — not the control of 27 of our neighbors,” Holloway continued. “We’re not going in on ourselves, we’re just saying that we’re open for business with everyone, please.”

The type of distorted rhetoric and criticism that Holloway and others have condemned concerning Brexit has also given rise to Trump and his portrayal in the media at large. Should Trump pull off a win in November, Americans may have to endure similar indignities, threats, and forecasts of ruin from the elites. But like the British, at least they will have a sovereign nation run by a government they chose.