Exactly what happened when Ireland rejected the Lisbon treaty, they were told to vote again until they voted the "right" way.

Heads I win, tails you loose. :(

It takes only one win to remove our rights but once they’re gone you’ll never get them back.

Modern democracy

    while not pass:
        try to pass something stupid, malevolent or that hurts people and democracies

Or, as is also seen elsewhere, wildly popular ideas simply get curiously stuck.

Either way those elected to supposedly serve are the only ones winning.

Yes. The anchor chain got broken sometime ago. It's still there, but nobody want it anymore.

They only have to win once. You have to win every time.

Of course. They literally spell their playbook out for you:

“We decide something, then put it out there and wait for a while to see what happens.

If there is then no great outcry and no uprisings, because most people do not even understand what has been decided, then we continue—step by step, until there is no turning back.”

— Jean-Claude Juncker