tresa-cho:

vixyish:

I don’t want to mock the UK as a whole. I don’t even want to mock people who voted “Leave” because they genuinely believed it was the best thing to do. 

What I’m absolutely stunned by are the many voters saying publicly this morning that they only voted “Leave” as a protest or a criticism of the EU, that they didn’t really believe it would pass and didn’t want it to, and now they regret voting it.

Like… that’s not… how voting works? 

Like someone was going to look at your “Leave” vote and magically understand that you were actually just saying some things about the EU should be fixed?

Even if “Remain” *had* won, did you really think they were going to look at the 47% “Leave” (or whatever it might have been) and go “ah yes, we have received your statement of protest and criticism, we’ll get right on fixing those things that you didn’t actually have any way of enumerating on a single binary ballot but we somehow know what you mean anyway”?

Voting is not a protest. Voting is voting. Voting is choosing an outcome. 

(I’m not claiming we’re any smarter about that in the US. See also: Nader voters & Bush. I’m still amazed.)

TAKE NOTE AMERICA- VOTING FOR TRUMP IN PROTEST IS A SHIT THING TO DO TO THE NATION