3 ms·

You are not far off. I think most people voting in the 2016 referendum were, in their minds, answering the question "do you want to give th establishment a goo

• mikeash 8y ago
  Same deal in the US. A lot of Trump voters were really voting for “let’s fuck up the establishment.” Doesn’t make sense to me. Seems analogous to getting fed up with shady mechanics, so the next time your car breaks down you drive it over a cliff in the hopes that the wreckage will be more reliable. But I guess people do strange things when they feel like they have no control.
  • rdtsc 8y ago
    > Seems analogous to getting fed up with shady mechanics, so the next time your car breaks down you drive it over a cliff in the hopes that the wreckage will be more reliable. But I guess people do strange things when they feel like they have no control. Exactly. Desperate people who don't see anything in the future for them or see thing getting worse, don't usually act rationally. Poverty does that to people as well, for example, and that's visible daily. They resort to payday loans, food they buy might not be healthy for them in the long term and so on. On the other side there are usually powerful forces willing to take advantage of that irrationality and desperation.