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While there are definitely pros and cons to the European Union, what I think is the most concerning is that older people seem to have made a decision alone that will affect the lives of younger generations for the years to come. Also, I was astonished to learn that most people don't seem to know what they have voted for. In the hours following the announcement that the eurosceptic had won the referendum, the most researched terms on Google accros the United Kingdoms where "What is the European Union?" and "What are the consequences of leaving the European Union?" It worries me as a strong advocate of direct democracy which referendums are an exemple of.
Those articles really irked me because they ultimately reveal implicit bias and devaluation of the people's choice. They wrote it as only Euroskeptics could have researched those terms, furthering the chant of the Remain camp, Europhiles and the Left that only uneducated, hillbilly half-wits could have possibly voted to leave the shining utopia of the EU. I think it far more likely that the spike was due to young people who didn't vote (or couldn't due to age) or they themselves who didn't educate themselves about what they were voting for. Not to mention the neutrality of the search queries themselves. My favorite articles before the referendum were how unconcerned the youth of the country were about the referendum and how little some of them seemed to know, but that's selection bias of course.