Referenda are dumb. 'Direct democracy' is a misnomer. Better term is amateurocracy. Democracy is good for picking people, not positions.
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referenda aren’t dumb. But most policy decisions and things that are the results of long negotiations are bad subjects for them
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which is.... Most matters in governance. Things that are referendum worth are usually handled at nation-formation time.
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also...exception that proves rule perhaps, in showing how unusual history and context have to be for it to work
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well, this risks restarting a civil war and sending it into a Venezuela type backslide and years of misery for many...
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The kind of people who get elected in India makes you a question the claim that democracy is good at picking people.
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