• DrCake@lemmy.world
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    It really annoys me how brexit voters hide behind the “I was lied to by the politicians”. Oh how could I have guessed that a movement lead by Farage, Rees-Mog, and Boris Johnson would lie to me. If only there was a pattern of them lying previously to inform me of there current behaviour.

    The remain campaign (and anyone with half a brain) routinely pointed out the lies. Turns out 52% of people vote on vibes alone, we are fucked.

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      Step one: Vote for incompetent buffoons who will say whatever bullshit it is you want them to say, despite every person on the planet with half a brain insisting that they’re full of shit.
      Step two: Complain that the politicians lied to you.

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        There is a step missing between those two: Say Brexit is going perfectly until they personally experience a minor inconvenience caused by Brexit

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      The remain campaign was complacent and that’s why they lost. The polls showed a majority for remain and many thought it wasn’t necessary to go vote as remain was going to win anyway.

      So before you lay blame with brexit voters, you should lay the blame with people who wanted to remain and couldn’t be bothered to show up and vote. They dropped the ball and the brexit voter then kicked it away.

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        So before you lay blame with brexit voters, you should lay the blame with people who wanted to remain and couldn’t be bothered to show up and vote.

        No, we should all be blaming the media and the people it serve who used their essentially unlimited power to manipulate the entire population to give them the result they wanted.

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        How do you figure? I’m seeing that voter turnout was 72%, which is higher than even the general election, and it’s unlikely that improving that even among young voters probably wouldn’t have made a difference.

        https://academic.oup.com/economicpolicy/article/32/92/601/4459491?login=true

        We also carry out a back-of-the-envelope calculation regarding turnout. Young people voted overwhelmingly in favour of Remain but had a lower turnout than older age groups. We find that a higher turnout of young voters would have been very unlikely to result in a different referendum outcome, partly because their turnout was already elevated compared with previous UK-wide elections.