>>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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>Tamar

I prefer the quote of Thomas Jefferson about an informed democracy.

And here's a little tidbit of information I doubt you'll be seeing on the evening news: Pennsylvania Representative Chaka Fattah (guilty of 20+ federal corruption charges) is a Clinton superdelegate.

Of course, he'll still probably be able to vote for Hillary - multiple times :)