Playing Russian Roulette with Democracy

Do the ideologically possessed Remaniacs know what they are doing playing fast and loose with democracy or do they just not care as they go hurtling off the cliff in pursuit of their Brussels idee fixe dragging the rest of the country with them?

Are they so naive that they believe they can totally bi pass the democratic Principle,the very mainstay of our freedoms - that at least something they  have always loudly espoused as their badge of honour,the very dna of their political being - and expect a free country to carry on as if nothing has happened with the infrastructure of society untouched by such undermining of its very foundations?

Or are we to conclude that the putative defenders of champions of democracy -the liberals of big and little l's were from the very get go contingent supporters of democracy -as long as it was delivering their desired outcomes? The minute the people returned a verdict hostile and inimical to their world vision of social and political norms ie Brexit they threw off their carefully constructed over a century democratic masque to reveal the ugly totalitarian illiberal beast beneath.

Those of us who were leary of the democratic 'ideal' from the start as least do not labour under such a burden of conflicting belief systems -we knew and were fully conv3rsant with the inherent contradicitons of democracy,its limitations and fundamental flaws -we never said it was the best thing since sliced bread -they  did and it is the flimsy superficial cynical  shallow nature of their committment to the principle that is coming as such an existential shock to all observers of the political fall out from Brexit. That is the devastating takeaway from the present debacle.