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Originally Posted by Clutch Munny
Peering down south at the US, I confess to longstanding confusion over the proliferation of Prop This and Prop That over the years, many of them dealing with fundamental rights -- i.e., stuff that ought to be handled only by legislative votes among the lawyers, gentlemen, and former used car salesm conservatives that are one's elected representatives.
How colonial of me, I guess.
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Canuckistan is colony?
There's a certain segment of the populace which actually thinks it's good at making public policy decisions. They want the authority without the responsibility. This way, if the idea is challenged, or fucks up bigtime, they can point to the public.....well, the public that voted.
Manipulating this collection has become a popular pastime in these parts, and has spread to other states.
Thankfully, in my state, we have had some excellent activist judges who have even defied public sentiment to strike down initiative legislation. Still, our whole state tax system is rigged by initiative measures of the past. It's nuts.