Aren’t you just saying that if you talk to a lot of people, many of them aren’t engaged in politics?
This is the world. It’s a flaw in democracy (though it’s better than the alternatives): you’re asking people to make decisions, but many of them just aren’t really interested and therefore don’t know what they’re talking about. With Brexit specifically, it’s an incredibly boring issue of governance and trade regulations and I personally have no knowledge nor expertise to contribute. I listened to the arguments and while one side was far more convincing than the other, moreover one side was composed of people whom I consider to be entirely motivated by their own self-interest and have no regard for objective analysis of evidence to find good solutions to improve our society, so it was easy to make a decision. But had I not followed politics for a while I wouldn’t have had a clue which way to vote other than on meaningless tribal/emotional/irrelevant grounds, and after that, I wouldn’t have any interest. It is very, very boring. But unfortunately it’s also quite important because it will affect our standard of living and the opportunities available to us and our children. Oh dear.