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No voter can master every issue, and few voters try. Any democratic system must cope with that. Referendums, instead, invite us to ignore the question, give the snake-oil peddlers an edge, concentrate our ignorance into a tightly focused beam, and hold nobody accountable for results. They magnify the vulnerabilities of our democracies and diminish their defences.
How Referendums Break Democracies
Fran Monks
„Alles, was einen Hashtag hat, lässt sich geil belächeln.“
— Margarete Stokowski, „Deine Mutter hält die Klappe“, März 2016
[Studies have shown](http://www.pnas.org/content/106/14/6008.full) auditory memory is typically inferior to visual memory, and while most of us can read for hours, our ability to focus on a speech is more constrained.
A Speech Is Not an Essay
John Coleman
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