Considering myself a non-political person, I am surprised at the deep disturbance I felt on the #brexit. As a European, I think this will be remembered as some sort of beginning, but not in a good way.
Democracy is a tricky thing (and has some amount of crazy in it), but a majority is one more than half of the voting population.
It's just that close votes like #brexit or the last elections for Austrian Presidency (both close to a 50:50 draw) show how extremely divided we are as countries, a union of countries or as individuals.
Seems that there is no 'Mittelmaß', no healthy balance anymore. Just extremes. And extremes lead to extreme things.
In a union, be it a marriage on a scale of two people or a political construct on a scale of hundreds of millions, there will always be controversies and one party sometimes has to accept to give more than they take. I believe we have to learn that again.
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