Fabian Schrötter
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Comments by "Fabian Schrötter" (@fabianschrotter) on "'Whattt! Russia Joining EU...': Moscow Scoffs At German Minister's 'Lisbon To Luhansk' Remark" video.
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@idarpolden5913 You want me to explain Brexit?
Around 75 percent of 18-24 year olds voted against Brexit, a whopping majority. Things are different for Brits over 65. Of them, only around 39 percent voted to remain in the EU.
In an aging society, an old conservative majority has overruled a young, cosmopolitan and liberal minority. That simple.
70 percent of people with a university degree voted against Brexit. Statistically, the lower the education, the higher the proportion of those who voted for Brexit. So here too, the uneducated majority outvoted the educated minority.
The Brexit campaign has successfully managed to lie to the uneducated majority with populist propaganda.
And as a result, the old, uneducated people have outvoted the young, educated ones. A democracy has to endure that. At the next vote in a few years on whether to re-join the EU, the British will likely have a higher educational average and prefer unity rather than division.
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