Regarding your other point, I honestly think there's nothing profound to understand but feel free to prove me wrong with concrete examples and no hand-waving or out-of-context citations.
Demagogues with agendas have existed for a long time, they are nothing new. So has scapegoating.
No-one in their right mind will claim that the EU is perfect, but the result of simplistically asking people to make a black-and-white decision about something so incredibly complex, and with so many unknowns, that almost no-one is in a position of fully understanding had the consequence of throwing the baby out with the water. And all because of a razor-thin-basically-within-uncertainty margin in the results.
Obviously, as laughable as this may be, it is a valid choice - and we will all have to live with its consequences.
I - for one - can't wait to get Scotland back in the EU.