(April 16, 2017 at 6:08 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: The referendum vote was about as free and fair as the 2016 US presidential election. I wouldn't be surprised that when the dust settles the No vote had a majority as large or larger than Hillary Clinton's.
It's not like it's the first time that authoritarians have been voted into power in Muslim nations. There is plenty of precedent. And if it was fixed, why make it so close? Not to say that Erdogan is above fixing the vote though.
Sorry, but this is just wishful thinking as it should never have even been a close vote in the first place. It's a nice dream to believe that the good people of Turkey have been subverted by a bad guy when all they want is democracy. The painful truth is that the people themselves are quite often the bad guys, especially when their minds have been subverted by religious ideology that tells them a powerful dictator is the best form of government.
If god was real he wouldn't need middle men to explain his wants or do his bidding.
