On the way in to work this morning, I realized this song is very appropriate -- both in my country and the UK, sadly -- for the generation seeing their parents turn to xenophobia, racism, and fear-mongering. (Me? I'm the generation in between. Gen X has never been large enough to be more than a media blip; we're the pause between the boom and echo. My parents are late war-babies and my kids are probably whatever we'll call the bunch that comes after millennials.)
The video itself goes in a different direction, but the lyrics are very appropriate as "leaders" in both countries try to figure out how to actually deliver the frightening things they've promised:
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