Referenda are dumb. 'Direct democracy' is a misnomer. Better term is amateurocracy. Democracy is good for picking people, not positions.
which is.... Most matters in governance. Things that are referendum worth are usually handled at nation-formation time.
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yeah: they should be fairly rare and restricted to simple constitutional questions. (Or perhaps big simple moral questions.)
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but we’ve had three since 2010 in U.K. which I think had appropriate subjects. AV referendum, Scottish independence, U.K. secession
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