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If you want to be independent you go and vote. If you do not care you stay home. Such low turnout seems like a win for "no" camp, because people of Catalonia ap
by _Tev 9y ago
If you want to be independent you go and vote. If you do not care you stay home. Such low turnout seems like a win for "no" camp, because people of Catalonia apparently do not care about independence from Spain.
- smcl 9y agoI’m not convinced, it requires some impressive mental gymnastics to turn a 5% “No” (and 10% Yes/No) into a majority
- _Tev 9y agoAgain - read the GP. 2014: 20% No, 40something turnout. Independence has good support, but it is huge decision. Considering the gravity of the issue that's weak.
- smcl 9y agoYou have magically inflated 10% "yes/no" plus 5% "no" and saying that means 20% "yes" (which is a stretch) ... and then extrapolated that to a majority somehow? Given the turnout then if we were saying "this is a definitive mandate for independence" then yes that would be a ridiculous statement ... but suggesting the opposite is absolutely preposterous.
- maksimum 9y agoExcept in this case it was If you want to be independent you go vote. If you do not care, or are afraid of getting hammered by Spanish police you stay home. In that case 43% turnout is pretty impressive.
- lottin 9y agoOnly if you think "not caring" means being against independence. I think it means not caring either way, i.e. they're neither in favour of it nor against it.
- _Tev 9y agoI think it is reckless to change borders just because few people want to. This is not your standard political issue, it's freaking tearing the country apart.
- smcl 9y agoThis is not a few people mucking around on a map for fun. Although for an example of that, see Britain and France carving up the middle east with a ruler last century. This is people voting for their own future, it is vastly different.
- gonvaled 9y agoWhy is a border so sacred for you? A border is there to serve people, not the other way around.