What a condescending tone to take ha, as if I don't already know...

Democracy is certainly rigged. I don't think anybody here denies that.

But the establishment really didn't want the brexit vote to turn out the way it did - it set them back in their plans. They remained dominant ofc, but with the way they tried to get around the peoples vote, they hated that they actually lost progress because of a vote. Anything that makes them even temporarily seethe makes me happy. They need to keep the deception going, which means they need to either control both "sides" of a vote, or cheat the vote. Thus, they are, short of revolution, the only chinks in the armour that it's possible to get at them through, as the general public still believes that democracy works. The elite want them to keep believing that.