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Sweden ignored a referendum where 83% voted for keeping left-sided traffic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H Often
by legulere 10y ago
Sweden ignored a referendum where 83% voted for keeping left-sided traffic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H
Often decisions are better left to experts, something that representative democracy usually achieves. I also think that we should explain representative democracy as the population being able to hold the people in power accountable instead of the people deciding things. So democracy might even be a misnomer. This result is exactly what opponents of democracy meant when they identified it with tyranny of the masses.
- bjelkeman-again 10y agoSweden also ignored a referendum and it's own decision to diamantle nuclear power. The government decided that all nuclear power would be dismantled after 2010. (Can be seen in the Swedish article). The majority of those plants are still in operation and can be replaced according to a new decision by a majority of the government. Probably sensible considering the changing understanding about carbon emissions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_nuclear_power_referendum,_1980 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_nuclear_power_refere...
- rayiner 10y agoLeft sided traffic is the classic example of something that should be determined by bureaucrats. Whether to let French people vote on laws that directly bind British people is the perfect example of something that should not be determined by bureaucrats.