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The Reaction to Brexit Is the Reason Brexit Happened
- rubyfan 10y agoExcellent article. FTA: If you believe there's such a thing as "too much democracy," you probably don't believe in democracy at all
- fanzhang 10y agoIt seems that the fundamental issues here is direct democracy vs representative democracy. There is an age-old issue of whether each individual citizen should indeed be able to vote on each individual government decision. It hardly seems fair to label someone who doesn't believe in direct democracy (or representative democracy for that matter) as not believing in democracy altogether. This article seems to do a slight-of-hand where it equates critics of direct democracy as undemocratic. And it does seem in this case that the populace supported Brexit, but a poll of the representatives would have shown the opposite.
- rubyfan 10y agoI think the point of the article is the elitist attitude and rule by "we know best" is what brexiters hated about the EU. It's now ironic that elitists are calling to invalidate the vote. I think the question of direct vs. representative doesn't factor. It's the elitist attitude that prevails regardless of style of democracy.
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