''Is Brexit proof that Europe is not working? In fact, what Brexit
demonstrates is rather that, in some cases, national democracies can
become dysfunctional—when complex decisions cross national boundaries
and have huge effects, for instance. This is a problematic and confusing
finding. It only follows that the EU cannot work if its constituent
national democracies do not work.
Thomas Jefferson was the most famous advocate of the need for a
well-informed electorate in the functioning of a democracy.
Well-informed voters must be able to trace a rational link between their
choice, whatever it is, and its consequences. We now know that the
rational link was unknown to many British voters, as well as to their
political representatives—not only before the vote, but even after it,
since we discovered that they had prepared no post-Brexit plan..''
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