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34 minutes ago, Linkey said:

As I have already explained, a referendum will be performed each week, but these referendums will not be "referendums in strict sense" (they will not have legal force).

This sounds like a recipe for fatigue as already mentioned. In Switzerland you have got something like 4 votes per year. Having one every week is insanity.

Having populist vote driven micro-managing when voters have no direct duties of care or accountability for their decisions/choices, have no obligation to be well informed and little or no skills in analysis and planning, where media have no overarching obligation to truthfully and accurately inform, let alone comprehensively inform does not sound workable to me, let alone an improvement.

And commercially run news services can and do have self-interested political bias, for their own business interests as well as the interests of their principle customers, their corporate advertisers whom they seek to please for the sake of their shareholders. Their principle business model is very often inducing viewers/listeners/readers to buy what they don't need on behalf of those primary customers, to encourage the marks/rubes/punter to set aside deeper considerations in favour of immediate and superficial indulgence and pressing their emotive buttons to get views and clicks and to influence their opinions.

As poorly performing and subject to undue and corrupt influence as many governments and court systems are populism making things worse is far too easy, whilst making things better by good governance remains hard work and rarely fully appreciated. The remarkable thing is the extent to which many of our political representatives really do try to do their best.

Edited by Ken Fabian

8 hours ago, Linkey said:

As I have already explained, a referendum will be performed each week

Repeating this doesn’t make it workable and ignores the objections that have been raised. The details don’t really matter if the premise is fatally flawed.

21 hours ago, Ken Fabian said:

Having populist vote driven micro-managing when voters have no direct duties of care or accountability for their decisions/choices, have no obligation to be well informed and little or no skills in analysis and planning, where media have no overarching obligation to truthfully and accurately inform, let alone comprehensively inform does not sound workable to me, let alone an improvement.

And especially nowadays, it would be perfect for mass manipulation via social media.

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