>> Looking at that twitter post that the article came from, it's an interesting insight into
>> people who hold strongly held beliefs on this issue. .................
I just went back and did that. Firstly I think the most striking thing is the low intelligence of many of the contributors. Some of them seem simply not to understand, others talk of saving them in WWII and others talk of revenge.
It's as if people didn't really understand what being a separate country was going to be like or how it was going to affect them on a simple, day to day level. It's going to be a proper PITA regular crossers. It's gone from looking for drugs and illegal immigrants to checking for ham sandwiches.
If the EU hadn't had ambitions of a comfortable superstate and if the British had put the right amount of effort into the EU over the previous 20 years we could have kept all the trade agreements and free movement and just dumped all the really problematic stuff.
One can only hope that future trade agreements will take us back to a Common Market type agreement yet steer clear of the other crap.
>>Like I said interesting insight into those with strongly held views on this. I wonder if any of them are self aware to see it?
Most people's strongly held views are driven by their day to day lives. They justify their opinions by how much it inconveniences them as they experience it or simply annoys them as they hear about it. They don't really seek to legitimise their position beyond that or see any need to do so.
Typically most people hang around with similar people leading similar lives and who thus have similar frustrations, and so reinforce each others' thoughts. People seek out echo chambers.
Consequently their views are rarely challenged. And, since the media targets groups of similar people, if they choose their outlet according to their position then they'll encounter a whole bunch of written or spoken reinforcement.
Very few people challenge or question their own position or are willing for someone else to do it to them.
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