[cm3]

I'm genuinely curious how someone living in an EU state does not know what it is and some of the stuff the org does day-to-day. How does this happen?

[ZeroGravitas]

The EU has an official blog keeping track of all the lies that the british press publish about the EU.

http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/

It's worse than not knowing stuff, most UK people have negative knowledge of the EU since their heads are full of lies.

[_9MOTHER9HORSE]

The EU is an utterly bewildering bureaucracy.

Barely anyone fully understands what it does.

[cm3]

Yeah, but barely anyone fully understands their municipal org either, and I took the comment to mean people have no idea at all what the EU is. For example, Iceland is not part of the EU, just part of another construct which kinda/sorta makes it easy for them to do business with the EU.

[overcast]

That's why governments and more specifically republics exist, because the masses are stupid.

[cm3]

If that's true, then having them vote is a game of those in power to get what they want by trying to keep them stupid. Is that the rest of your thought? We can see how places with conflicts try to keep the population misinformed or under-informed in order to more easily justify violent actions, so who's to benefit (besides Boris Johnson) from a proper exit?