In the wake of Prime Minister David Cameron’s announcement that he would
leave office following the United Kingdom’s vote to exit the European
Union, tens of millions of Americans expressed their confusion to
reporters Friday about a system of government in which a leader would
resign after making a terrible decision. “Wait, so he made a really
awful choice with far-reaching negative consequences and now he’s just
stepping down to let someone else take over? What?” said Colorado
Springs, CO resident Evan Austin, echoing the sentiments of citizens
across the United States who were left struggling to understand why a
democratically elected head of government would relinquish control
simply because they had been shown to have made a spectacularly bad
judgment call. “So he jeopardized the future of his country, and instead
of spending the next several years remaining in power while trying to
paper over his mistakes, he’s just gone? Where’s the part where he
denies any wrongdoing or tries to blame somebody else? This is
absolutely crazy.” The American public noted, however, that they
completely understood the part where voters who had made a demonstrably
terrible decision continued to double down on it
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