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Being profoundly unqualified to evaluate legislation, the electorate is highly susceptible to well-crafted advertising on ballot measures and can easily end up
by paggle 7y ago
Being profoundly unqualified to evaluate legislation, the electorate is highly susceptible to well-crafted advertising on ballot measures and can easily end up voting for something that they don't philosophically agree with.
This is why direct democracy is generally considered a failed concept and why California's state administration is generally considered a failure, propped up only by the nearly incomprehensible amount of wealth generated in the state.
- simplecomplex 7y agoSpeak for yourself. I am no less qualified than my elected reps. You don’t know what’s best for me. Don’t like voting on the laws that govern you? Then don’t vote.
- paggle 7y agoThat’s like saying “I can fly this plane better than this pilot.” If it’s true, you need to be hiring better pilots.
- dmode 7y agoCalifornia's state administration is considered a failure ? by whom ? By constituents who continue to send supermajorities of the same party ?