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If 51% and 49% cant come to agreement they should live separately. I am not advocating full secession but something like Hong Kong (HK handles everything except
by wav-part 10y ago
If 51% and 49% cant come to agreement they should live separately. I am not advocating full secession but something like Hong Kong (HK handles everything except Defence and External Affairs).
(I think) In democracy, voters are less likely to compromise. This is result of weak discussion between >1m.
- tempestn 10y agoUnfortunately ideology and geography have a correlation that, while positive, is less than one. There will always be a minority that gets overridden. And while it is a good thing for people to have freedom to move to a place that supports their values in extreme cases (some are even talking seriously about it this election), in most situations that isn't practical.
- wav-part 10y agoStill that does not stop me from solving 90% of the problem using seperations. For example I would like to have greater say in where my taxes are spent. If we can all agree on this, this would be great. But likely technology (as always) will come to rescue before democracy. This is in reference to rise of renunciations, AirBnB etc.