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Kinda frames the majority Brexits as something they are not (rational). It’s dishonest.
If it were honest there would have been coherent arguments from the Brexit camp.
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frames the majority Brexits as something they are not (rational)
You may not agree with them, but having different values from yours doesn't make them irrational. There are sensible and respectable arguments for leave just as there are for remain. Both campaigns deliberately lied about what was achievable and about what the inevitable costs of their positions were, because the contest was to gain votes, not to win an award for honesty. They both told big lies, because in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
gbj_tester
For the purpose of the lexicographical argument, it doesn't actually matter how many as long as it's not all of them. Given that there really is a silent majority, it seems at least possible that the number of leave voters primarily motivated by ends for which exit would not be the means might be the minority.