Ciggy Bringer of Smoke
"Referendums are bad"
Why?
"Tyranny of Majority Potential, Insurgent Minority Pulling One Over Potential"
Exceeding the potential of legislatures doing that even more capably with worse outcomes and it being an explicit irremovable part of the framework?
"But you get to vote directly on who is in those legislatures"
In a ludicrously less straightforward way to get majoritarian popular policy than a referendum.
"Yes, to prevent bad outcomes from happening"
More bad than ALL OF THIS?
Ciggy Bringer of Smoke
As much as one might fret about the peril of a Direct Democracy populated by a demos of bad people in the majority - we already have a demos of bad people in the minority stepping on your neck and kicking your dog no matter how unpopular it is.
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