What I find so unfathomable is the lack of any leader who can even speak truth and rally support on social media, a la Sanders. Why is that?

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

Then again, there is now open war between Merkel and the SPD about pushing for a quick Brexit.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

Perhaps they react this way not only because they're childish but because they fear this Brexit may end up turning out to be another gambit to change the EU.
Seeing Jungker drunkenly bitch-slapping the other EU leaders as welcome makes me wonder if the EU is on its last legs. Legless!
Draghi's doing his best to save the Italian banking system, which is emitting a sonorous death-rattle.
What a crew... Renzi, Merkel, Tusc, Jungker, Disselbloem, Hollande.
How did Europe end up like this?
The game could be up for these Eurocrats and their cosy little cabal of undemocratic cronies.
They are equally despicable, and fully deserve their cult of Mammon-uber-alles to fail.
Europe's like a senile dowager with dementia, tipsy with privilege, a rotten tree ready to crumble.
One more push from another disenchanted state... these constipated clowns do not a circus make.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

Yeah, Britain is trolling at the highest level yet, can you say 'Sand in the gears?'
Out. Of. Control. Boris. Couldn't resist the brass ring.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty