[pmlnr]

"Leave won by 1 million. No of EU citizens who couldn't vote 3 million. No of British abroad who couldn't vote 700,000. Citizens of 53 Commonwealth countries were able to vote just by being UK residents. Will of "the people"- depends on who you asked #BrexitExtension"

https://twitter.com/KatarinaKeys/status/1188785762436816896

But it is indeed a crisis of democracy: the elected leaders should be able to prevent self-harm scenarios like this.

[agent008t]

Would you have been making the same argument if the situation was reversed?

I.e. the elected leaders held a position you strongly disagreed with, and there had been a referendum on the question in which the opposition to that idea had won?