First Brexit, now this. Can we just ban all referendums, already?http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/colombia-referendum-peace-accord-farc-rejected-161002220514696.html …
indeed, but seems secondary. Both of you seem to be advancing primary point that "will of people can be significantly wrong".
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(But I don't think we'll find right answer in 140 chars...)
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I can give you the right answer in less than that. Brexit? No. Peace? Yes.
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the difference is I believe in attenuated representative democracy, rather than fiddling with who can vote.
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whatever failings of democracy generally, referendums at national level exceptionally stupid
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fact that bad democratic outcomes have concentrated recently suggests something unrelated to democracy
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to which democracy is occasionally vulnerable, to which it has not yet adapted - feels like swaths of population
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