Several Leave voter’s I know said they voted that way for “change” or to “shake things up”, not out of any particular or more definable political reason. I think it’s part of the broader disillusionment with politics, or politics at usual, that’s become so pervasive.
They don’t evaluate the potential consequences because they don’t trust the establishment explaining them. They’d rather roll the dice on the unknown, because all they think they do know is the current normality hasn’t been working for them.
Several Leave voter’s I know said they voted that way for “change” or to “shake things up”, not out of any particular or more definable political reason. I think it’s part of the broader disillusionment with politics, or politics at usual, that’s become so pervasive.
They don’t evaluate the potential consequences because they don’t trust the establishment explaining them. They’d rather roll the dice on the unknown, because all they think they do know is the current normality hasn’t been working for them.