Democracy, nationalism and hope
Picture taken in Lanzarote, by the author I have received since the referendum in the United Kingdom about the European Union a lot of messages, tweets and talks of shock, denial or anger about the results of the UK referendum and of the US presidential elections. You, dear reader, probably witnessed the same thing so I don't need to quote them. Unfortunately, I saw much fewer messages of hope from people who triggered this change by voting for Brexit or for Donald Trump, or who are feeling supported by either cause. But this probably tells more about my network than the real diversity of people's opinion, even though I have always tried to have as open a network as possible. My argument in this post is that, whichever side of the argument you found yourself in, I will try and convince you that you should be optimistic about the future. Democracy is alive Firstly, the two political events mentioned previously were fantastic exercises of democracy. Brexit re