(June 24, 2016 at 1:50 am)Aractus Wrote:(June 24, 2016 at 1:30 am)Tiberius Wrote: Referendums only work when the population is educated on the matter at hand. They should be reserved for civil rights matters and not for complicated economic issues.
If you held a referendum to end taxes, how many idiots do you think would vote yes?
You don't do your argument any favours by labelling your opponents as uneducated hicks who can't understand complicated matters.
I don't care. I just watched my former country fuck itself.
There's a reason we elect representatives: because we want them to make educated decisions for us. The average person does not understand economics on a large scale, and that includes myself. I would have voted "Remain" purely because the experts overwhelmingly supported that option, but I would have preferred no referendum at all.