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SvennoJ on 25 June 2016
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haxxiy said:
SvennoJ said:

Not that it hasn't happened before with the European constitution / Treaty of Lisbon.
The sovereign will of the people, what does that really mean though: 34.7% of the people voted to remain, 37.5% voted to leave, 27.8% did not vote.
Democracy kinda fails with big decisions and undecisive votes.

Qualified majority in politics, to shield some laws and policies from cronyism and ingroup bias, is one thing; on electoral processes, another entirely different. What do you propose? To vote it again and again until one gets 60-66.6% of the votes? It will never happen.

Those who dislike politics are punished by leaving it up to those who like it. There is nothing wrong with democracy here, just the sloth and idleness of some. As Bertolt Brecht says, the worst illiterate is the political illiterate.

I feel like this the talk of sore losers. Specially millenials who think they are more entitled to vote and have more enlightened opinions than older people because "muh future" and whatnot. I can't see anything else on this besides plain old ageism. Guess what? You could take a bullet to the forehead tomorrow and some of the elderly live another 30 years. One never knows...

With course altering decisions like this, while willing the population to decide, an asolute majority should be a requirement.
So with 72.2% turnout, yeah 69.3% of that has to vote for change. Get 90% motivated to vote, 55.5% is sufficient. Should 37% of the people get to decide to uproot everything and throw a country on a different course? If it's that important to them, those 37% should be able to motivate another 13%.
Math is not a strong point in politics. Anyway it's not my country, we already had our brexit in 1982.

I don't blame the British btw, I wouldn't want Canada to join with the USA either.