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EricHiggin on 09 April 2019
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SpokenTruth said:
EricHiggin said:

Imagine if a candidate barely won an election but the opponent wouldn't accept it and was able to keep them from taking power, and somehow dragged it out for 4 years until the next election. That would be cool because, democracy, right? I tend to think if the winner was liberal and the opponent was conservative that it wouldn't be seen as ok, at least the msm and their viewers would see it that way.

Imagine if you made an analogy that actually made sense.

Too busy trying to imagine a worthwhile response to my point.

forest-spirit said:
EricHiggin said:

Imagine if a candidate barely won an election but the opponent wouldn't accept it and was able to keep them from taking power, and somehow dragged it out for 4 years until the next election. That would be cool because, democracy, right? I tend to think if the winner was liberal and the opponent was conservative that it wouldn't be seen as ok, at least the msm and their viewers would see it that way.

That's a pretty bad comparison so I don't know why you'd want us to imagine it. The reason for why it has taken this many years isn't because the Stay-side has refused to accept defeat but because the Brexiters has failed spectacularly in going through with Brexit. Perhaps if the Leave-side had had an actual plan and its leaders hadn't fled the field like cowards once the results was in, things had gone differently. Truth is though that they have had three years to come up with a solution but have not gotten anywhere.

Not allowing people to vote for Brexit again is like cancelling a general election because the ruling parties has yet to fulfill all of the promised reforms.

It was only about the anti-democratic point. It wasn't really based directly on what is happening with Brexit. Either way, if the winner in my scenario didn't really have much of a plan and platform and wouldn't have gotten much accomplished anyway, then it wouldn't be much different. It's not like the stay side and the EU is going out of their way to make things super easy for the Brexiters to move ahead with their agenda.