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CircleBoy posted:So as I'm sure some of you are aware Scotland recently had a vote on breaking away and becoming independent. Results aside the level of political engagement was something I've never seen before in this country and likely never will again. The turnout was just under 85% compared to 50% in the most recent Scottish Parliament elections. I live in Glasgow and the whole city spent the week in the lead-up deep in some sort of referendum fever. Everywhere you looked were the stalls of campaigners. People would come up to you in the streets and ask you how you were going to vote and try to change it if they could. Every pub and workplace was awash with discussion, Facebook was virtually unusable for any non political purpose. Through it all I saw a lot of people who firmly and passionately believed that they were right...and I was jealous. IMO it usually has to do with the idea that the other side is going to achieve total victory unless radical action is taken. It has less to do with utopianism or wishing for radical changes to the status quo, but fear of some external actor that's going to destroy the status quo.
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