>>False dilemma. A non-vote or abstention is not the same as a vote for the opposition.
I take your point, but my underatanding is that more than 60% of people over 65 voted to exit, while 75% of people under 25 voted to stay.
The problem was that 85% of people aged over 65 voted but only 36% of those under 25 voted.
Had the young voted at the same rates as their parents, Brexit probably would be a nonevent footnote now.
Hence my comment that the decision not to vote contributed to the result just as much as the high numbers of oldsters wanting to leave.
Which in context is the same message to those here attacking HRC and DT for being the worst, the most hated, the whatever. If what you say is true- then it happened because too many people failed to exercise their right to be heard. Until it was too late.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
