‘Scexit' is dead in the water...

Goes to show, the SNP do not represent the Scottish people, they represent a small clique of extreme left wing pro EU supporting English hating nationalists. To be honest it's not so much that the SNP are pro EU, the SNP are, and always have been, very anti English and they will support any like minded organisation, group, union or country. The SNP's reason for existing, their entire raison dêtre is to hate the English. 

I understand why it would be easy to think of all Scottish Nationalists as contemptible anti-English bigots based upon what we see on here, but please don’t think that those who spew their extremist twisted views on this cyber channel are representative of all independence supporters, or even of all Scot Nats, because that is not the case. Sure, almost all independence supporters have a seriously flawed understanding of the constitutional arrangements which causes them to feel a sense of unwarranted national grievance and makes them easy prey to the grievance mongering indy propagandists, and sure, very few of them have an ounce of financial acumen rendering them susceptible to the snake oil economic prospectus peddled by the nationalist movement, and, of course, many up here, just as everywhere else, are struggling to carve out a decent life for themselves and wrongly feel that things can’t get any worse under independence so why not give it a try, but they are nothing like the embarrassing shower of rancid racists who regularly pop up on here. Think of Brexit and the band of decent, financially stretched, but gullible types who got so easily sucked in by the Brexit snake oil salesmen in 2016 and how they would have reacted had Remain prevailed and you should get a sense of what is going on up here. Scottish independence is, to Scotland, what Brexit was to England, motivated by the same concerns, vulnerabilities and prejudices but with the potential for much more damaging consequences than Brexit could ever deliver if it ever comes to pass.

Brexit was based upon resentment of other nations (Germany and France) and a larger political-economic entity (the EU) for restricting our self-determination, for seemingly being able to dictate to us, for diminishing our national identity and our perceived standing in the world, and for everything and anything that we were unhappy about in our lives.

Scexit is based upon resentment of another nation (England) and a larger political-economic entity (the UK) for restricting our self-determination, for seemingly being able to dictate to us, for diminishing our national identity and our perceived standing in the world, and for everything and anything that we are unhappy about in our lives.

The rest (including what you say above) is just an attempt to dress up those corrosive attitudes and motivations to try to make them appear a bit more credible and sophisticated - but underpinning it all in both cases is/was damaging nationalistic hubris and intolerance of others.

Yep, and I am sure that other Brexiteers can come up with other versions of that to dress up their true motivations - and there will be all sorts of ScotNat versions of that to justify Scexit out there too - but the underlying motivation for Brexiters and Scexiters alike is/was as I describe above.

That said, the arguments for and against Brexit were not particularly clear cut and the decision was therefore a lot more nuanced than with Scexit where there was and is no credible argument of any significant level of importance for voting YES.

Yes, I do. Sure, they may not use those terms or necessarily grasp what they mean, but in both the Brexit and Scexit scenarios, those advocating change pressed the patriotic/quasi-racist buttons of the politically inert and disinterested and whipped them into action by telling them that Johnny Foreigner or Tommy English was controlling their ‘country’ and deciding what we can and cannot do, that our ‘country’ and our interests were being sidelined by being part of a larger entity, that all of our problems stemmed from this (including immigration/emigration), and that if we could only take back control then everything would be ticketyboo.

You are right, Scexit is not about that. Scexiters have their own particular bag of grievances and prejudices, germane to the Scottish perspective rather than the (largely) English perspective.. Brexit and Scexit are situationally different (obviously) but the attitudes, motivations, and behaviours of the crucial mass of Brexiters and Scexiters are very similar, as outlined above.