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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
(As Pepper Potts’s head of security in Iron Man Three enthuses: ‘The “human” part of “human resources” is our biggest vulnerability. We need to start phasing it out immediately.’)
Who Touched Base in My Thought Shower?
Steven Poole
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