Excellent article
What a measured, reflective, and insightful post this is. I only saw it today post-referendum. But I am pointing my many left-leaning acquaintances to it as a useful explanation of why their tendency to self-righteous belief and their disregard and disdain for the working class has led to this kind of reaction and result. Most appear (without any apparent sense of irony) to have resorted to petulant complaining about democracy ('this is what happens when you let people make decisions', 'I didn't vote for this so it's wrong', etc.), blaming racism, and advocating that over 50's should not have been given the vote.