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>Never in my life, not once, have I seen citizens voting actually change anything of significance in a country Do you mean in the US? Examples that spring to
by D_Alex 8y ago
>Never in my life, not once, have I seen citizens voting actually change anything of significance in a country
Do you mean in the US?
Examples that spring to mind in other countries are: gay marriage equality (Australia), independence (East Timor, plus probably others... Scotland and New Caledonia rejected independence by plebiscite), conscription (Austria), abortion (Ireland), migrant intake (Hungary) etc... and of course Brexit.
- pdimitar 8y agoI am from Eastern Europe. Here nothing ever changes politically-wise. The politicians expend a lot of PR effort to make things look like they are changing but they don't and it's pretty visible even for the not very well educated population.
- grussergraph 8y agoThat generally describes the US, except the propaganda has a larger budget.