UK Brexit, questions from an American

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I think both sides are using fear mongering as their main tactic because it seemed to work so well for the unionists in the Scottish referendum.

Most people don't bother asking the complicated questions and to inform themselves. In this day and age, fear is omnipresent. The fear of losing ones livelihood most prominent among them. I'm not free of these fears either. The question is what you make of them. I'm not willing to be exploited by political fearmongers and their scapegoatery. The culprits of my predicament aren't refugees or the big bad EU. They are my own failed decisions and the crumbling economy.

In case of the EU it gets ludicrous when the same politicians, right after having a cozy meeting at Brussels, return home and start to blame the EU for decisions they had made. They are the EU, after all. In many cases it takes an unanimous vote from all member states to pass some ground changing law. So they raised their paws too when it came to make a decision.

Again, people don't ask. Such as, what were you doing at Brussels? They just buy the narrative of some evil overlord structure raping it's poor members.