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Originally Posted by PilotMan
The poor, working class, consistently votes against their own best interests. They vote from an emotional base and if they can be worked up enough the vote will follow. Do you think all those poor neighborhoods in the UK really sat down to look at the financial and larger macro effects of leaving the UK? Or did they hear that soundbyte about taking their country back? Did they look at how their own cities and neighborhoods were benefiting from the EU subsidies, or were they angry about being under the thumb of foreign government? Do you think that the poor, working class actively seeks out the objective opinion, reads journal articles, and scientific research or do they look for the person who tells them exactly how they should feel, whether or not it's fact based?
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The problem is that many of the poorer demographic lack the education and critical thinking skills to be able to determine what is likely true and what isn't with regards to the constant bombardment of propoganda - Politics is one arena where there is no protection for the consumer at al, politicians are allowed to blatantly lie without any consequences and often with much to gain ...
To demonstrate this you only have to look at Donald Trump and his constantly surfing statements which vary hugely from day to day according to how people react and often contradict reality to a terrifying degree*.
*Him standing in Scotland - a country within which EVERY country voted to remain in the EU and state that the country is excited at the outcome of the referrendum amused me somewhat
