Brexit vote to Leave is the end result of stupid people voting

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50. This is what "direct democracy" looks like scaled up from the town hall, where it works, to a State

...the size of California, where it begins to break down. My late mother saw the effects of Prop 13 immediately, when the local public library had to drastically scale back its hours. She complained about other effects as well, but that one really hurt, and she seems to have been one of the few who saw the connection.

But moving on to "direct democracy" scaling up -- it simply does not work on the massive scale needed for nations. It's why we have elections of people who will represent our interests and make it their full time job until we have another election. It's why ... Argh ... Checks and balances...

People are going with their guts, not their brains or their hearts.

I think DU is having one of its psychotic episodes. I'm shocked at the number of people who call for "direct democracy" because apparently that will give us a leader as benign as Bernie Sanders. I look at the divisions in this country and it could just as easily give us Donald Trump, the way the UK just got Brexit.