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Originally Posted by ianch99
I agree that the opposition to the Leave project was inept. The "democratic" mandate that drives the vitriol and indignation to any dissent is and always was flawed. Both from a wider definition of democracy and from a moral one. The proposition that 37% of a country's electorate can decide the destiny of the entire population can never be accepted as real democracy. Of course, we have a system that favours a certain outcome. Add the lies, criminality, targeted dark propaganda and misdirection and you arrive at where we are now. Had Leave won, having fought an honourable campaign with a costed and worked plan, opposition would have faded away.
Anyway, we are where we are and in this situation, as Project Fear becomes Project Reality, there is a ongoing need to hold the conmen to task.
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You keep telling yourself that if it makes you happy, but in the real world democracy is the least worst means of making decisions despite the fact that it almost always operates on a plurality rather than an outright majority. I don’t believe for one second that you would be making this same argument had the referendum results been precisely reversed.
Active Euro-enthusiasm in the U.K. is and always has been a niche pursuit, just as active Euro-scepticism is. The difference is that the euro-enthusiasts, mostly of the metropolitan, soft liberal left whose connection to the population at large is tenuous at the best of times, smugly assumed that the indifferent masses agreed with them. This has always been their weakness. The sceptics, however, understood that there was genuine anger at various economic and social changes in society and they believed they could motivate the masses to support them if they could show how our EU membership was culpable for those changes.
This they did, the rest is history.