There is an interesting phenomenon that unfolds in England and in the US as well. The unwashed do not care for the preferences of the upper class Brahmins and vote in patterns that the upper class does not approve or understand. The answer of the upper class that knows everything and apparently understands nothing is to lecture the Luddites and to add fuel to the fire. Let us look at the recent referendum in England. We are told that
1) The majority was misinformed, dumb, and egotistical while
2) The proponents of the exit lied and misinformed the people.
while the learned analyses concerning the referendum do not address, as a rule, the following:
Why did the upper class that has both money and education fail to persuade the voters that the proponents of the exit were misrepresenting the facts and that the exit would be ruinous?