I have always made it my business to understand different political positions on as much as possible, I am fairly well read and fairly well educated yet I still found the whole Brexit debate extremely confusing, economically illiterate, socially unfathomable, lacking in critical thought, overwrought with propaganda, occasionally amusing, drowned in metaphor, saturated anecdotally and a lot of it unnecessarily superfluous to my needs.
If you have politicians sitting in the House of Commons who don't even understand the importance of Dover to trade then how the fucking hell are the average lads and ladies in the street supposed to grasp the full enormity of the debate. Because I know I didn't, I still don't three years on and I have learnt fuck loads since the referendum. I don't believe many on either side of the debate fully grasped the details and I don't think anyone on either side ever imagined the complexity of the issues that were the subject of the debate.
In answer to your ultimate Remainer allegation, I am certain that your riposte shows your are either a genius with a Doctorate in EU studies or you are kidding yourself and I don't mean that as an insult because even the supposedly brightest minds that represent us have continually shown a failure to understand the complexity of the issues themselves, hence the stalemate that exists.