Typical Lax Dad wrote:a fan wrote:HooDat wrote:I never said painless, I said as smooth as possible. Don't underestimate the voters - they knew what they were asking for. They may have even been willing to take a little hit to get it. Brits are stubbornly independent people (at least in their minds).
Sorry, wasn't clear----I meant the Brexit political leaders, not the people themselves.
And I don't agree that the the British people who voted to leave understand the economic consequences of their choice.
They didn't understand and didn't care... It was the British version of the deplorables.....
^^^^^ this
and in all the various ramifications of TLD's use of the word... (see below)..
dislaxxic wrote:Without meaning to "come at you" hoodog, don't you think there's a little bit of "defending" going on when you kinda justify the referendum's success the first time by now taking a kinda macro standpoint of "well, they made the right choice because it's just because of, you know, they want to protect their sovereignty".
That's obviously NOT all it's about, right?
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I never said it was the "right" or the "wrong" choice. Unfortunately in a democracy, and even in a democratic republic, the system is not geared toward getting to the "correct" answer (if there is such a thing) it is aligned to get to the answer that reflects the will of the people.
If you want the people led by their "betters" than ditch the idea of
pretending you have a democracy and jump straight to something else. There is no rule that democracies have to be "right". But they certainly work better when the voters are well informed. Now who's fault is it if they are not? Who is generally responsible for the delivery of information on free societies? ... the elite. The same elite who bemoan how stupid the "deplorables" are.
History is littered with the failures of "elites" who couldn't see very well from up on their high horses....
...it is paved with the grist of the deplorable non-elites who are repeatedly ground to a pulp as the elites
run train on them over and over again.....