>>>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
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>I prefer the quote of Thomas Jefferson about an informed democracy.
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>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.
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>Of course, he'll still probably be able to vote for Hillary - multiple times :)

When he goes to prison, maybe he'll share a cell with former Republican House Speaker and serial pervert Dennis Hastert.

Or the recently-convicted former NY Senate Majority leader, another Republican.