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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Torrance" data-source="post: 127738" data-attributes="member: 719">And if it is again a close vote?Years before Europe started slowly losing its mind, followed by the US in 2016, The Economist offered this warning against referendums. I have always thought they were a simplistic and lousy idea, and events have made me believe that even more.<a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2011/04/20/the-perils-of-extreme-democracy" target="_blank">https://www.economist.com/leaders/2011/04/20/the-perils-of-extreme-democracy</a>It is worth reading the whole article, but the conclusion is eerily prescient:The worry is that the Western world is slowly drifting in the opposite direction. Concern over globalisation means government is unpopular and populism is on the rise. Europeans may snigger at the bizarre mess those crazy Californians have voted themselves into. But how many voters in Europe would resist the lure of a ballot initiative against immigration? Or against mosque-building? Or lower taxes? What has gone wrong in California could all too easily go wrong elsewhere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Michael Torrance, post: 127738, member: 719"] And if it is again a close vote? Years before Europe started slowly losing its mind, followed by the US in 2016, [I]The Economist[/I] offered this warning against referendums. I have always thought they were a simplistic and lousy idea, and events have made me believe that even more. [URL]https://www.economist.com/leaders/2011/04/20/the-perils-of-extreme-democracy[/URL] It is worth reading the whole article, but the conclusion is eerily prescient: [I]The worry is that the Western world is slowly drifting in the opposite direction. Concern over globalisation means government is unpopular and populism is on the rise. Europeans may snigger at the bizarre mess those crazy Californians have voted themselves into. But how many voters in Europe would resist the lure of a ballot initiative against immigration? Or against mosque-building? Or lower taxes? What has gone wrong in California could all too easily go wrong elsewhere.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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