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One man's "cutting off your nose to spite your face" is another man's "sticking to your ideological guns even when you make less money that way". If anything
by throwaway0a5e 6y ago
One man's "cutting off your nose to spite your face" is another man's "sticking to your ideological guns even when you make less money that way".
If anything being able to occasionally execute on controversial things like this seems like an argument in favor of democracy. How often have we heard of X or Y is easier in a dictatorship because the approximate half of the population that disagree can just be steamrolled and progress can happen without them? To me things like Brexit are proof that democracy can be just as versatile when it wants to.
- andrewflnr 6y agoBroadly, yes, but I don't see the ideology in play in Brexit.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoPeople wanted out (for a variety of reasons, some better than others). They got out (with some find print). They're gonna pay for it. But nothing is ever free. It might be stupid, but the people get what they want even if it's stupid. Welcome to democracy, the system that sucks less than all the alternatives.
- andrewflnr 6y agoThat rather confirms my point.
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- gorgoiler 6y agoIdeology wasn’t thin in the ground for either the leftist Brexiteers, “Nationalists”, paternalistic One Nation stories or for the Ever Closer Union lot. The main complaint about the whole process was that it was far too ideological instead of being benignly technocratic.