Comment on Why don;t more presidents put stuff to a national referendum like Clinton did a couple times? A person would get time off work to vote, show what americans actually want and so on.

devolution@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• flabberjabber@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Agreed. Although with the caveat that, had there been more stringent regulations surrounding misinformation and manipulation in political and media discourse for the UK, Brexit would never have been able to occur. Leave got there (and only just) through a multitude of lies and emotional manipulation.

  Direct democracy is the ideal end goal of any democratic system. But for it to work, people need to be educated, healthy, stable, and both interested and invested in the political process.

  We’ve a lot of ground to cover between then and now.

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