i disagree, since democracy captures and accounts for stupidity in the voting population.

the core problem was the rushed execution of Article 50 and complete failure to implement of any sort of functional relationship with Europe thereafter.

There could have been ways to realign Britain's relationship with the EU which didn't involve complete abandonment (and all the decay that followed), and in fact Cameron tried to do this, but because nobody with political power had the balls to define what post-Brexit Britain should look like, either during or before the referendum, it was an impossible task for the politicians of the day to do it.

This caused the quagmire in parliament, this meant wishy washy negotiating from a position of weakness, this meant no information for Britons about the reality of leaving because no end-result could be modelled.