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[–] cT9NlRLhxlyr 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

This is what will happen every single time if you let a population decide its own fate. The bottom line is that half of the population is less intelligent than average, and in a democracy it only takes that half of the population + 1 to overrule everybody else. There's a reason no democracy survived through the millennia, but monarchies did.

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[–] whitesilk ago 

That is why we have the Electoral College.

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[–] cT9NlRLhxlyr ago  (edited ago)

If the Electoral College is viewed by the majority as "getting in their way," they will remove it sooner or later - further illustrating the problem with direct citizen participation.