>>One factor is the young where overwhelmingly keen to stay in but they will have to live with the consequences of votes by the old.
>>I don't think there ever should have been a referendum. Most people aren't qualified to make that decision and now its done forever.
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>>So who IS qualified to make the decision? You?
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>There's a reason that most (all?) democratic countries in the world are representative democracies, not direct democracies. We understand that running a country requires a lot of knowledge that the average doesn't have, so we let the people choose their representatives and expect those representatives to become educated about matters of state.
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going one step further such logic points to those averages being barred from voting at all.
I think the swiss model taught the population there to handle such things responsibly, if done often enough.
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