Quote (Mastersam93 @ Jan 18 2018 11:18am)
Although I agree with OP that in a perfect world, where everyone was well informed, a referendum system would be better than a republic.
Everyone has to be well informed, and even if this cannot be done in a perfect way, this should be more important than political strategies that leaves the voters without any real influence
Quote (balrog66 @ Jan 17 2018 05:13pm)
Politicians are 24/7/365 busy trying to read up and work on proposals/laws/amendments, and they are very divided in what they believe is right for the country.
You can't honestly expect the average Joe to make these kinds of decisions whilst holding up a 5 to 9 job at the same time. We pay politicians to make those decisions so we don't have to. The whole representative government thing and all.
Yes, there are countries where referenda are more present in the political sphere (Switzerland for example), but even then they still have full time politicians to represent the people in parliament.
@ bolded, the average joe can vote for Donald Trump when they understand how much no influence they have on a regular government, is it really better ?
This post was edited by PKSubban on Jan 18 2018 10:19am