• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    6 hours ago

    How can you, a Romanian living in let’s say Germany, vote for someone who has an isolationist policy

    UK foreign expats living in Spain voted in favour of Brexit, and are now all upset that they have to leave and come back to the UK. They literally voted for this.

    The basic problem is that most people don’t actually bother to investigate the policies of the people they vote for, they treat it like a popularity contest and just vote for whoever they personally like. I’m of the opinion that people should be required to prove an understanding of proposed policies before they’re actually allowed to vote, if only to the extent of a quick Google search while standing in the queue to vote.

    • Tja@programming.dev
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      5 hours ago

      And their slogan is literally “we didn’t vote for this” when they voted exactly for this. Not a smart bunch, those.