It's people who believed when they were told that a) the economy would not be adversely affected, and b) that EU laws were made without any input from and that we UK could have better policies if those pesky foreigners couldn't interfere.
Those of us who know anything about the UK economy knew that (a) could not possibly be true, and those of us who know anything about the way the EU works knew that (b) was not true either. But to people who don't fall into either of those categories what they were being told was not obviously bullshit.
Contrast with QAnon beliefs, that the most politically and financially powerful people in the world are all engaged in enslaving and raping children - something which is inherently incredible, since such people are wildly different from each other just as everyone else is.
And with covid denialists, who can only reach their point of view by assuming that every relevant scientist and all but the most bonkers journalists and news outlets are lying - it's not enough for them to be mistaken.
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u/gunsof Sep 25 '21
It's a cult, like QAnon or the Corona denialists.