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haxxiy on 25 June 2016
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SvennoJ said:
haxxiy said:

To come up with something like that after the referendum sounds like a coup against the sovereign will of the people.

Imagine to come up with that after presidential elections or the like. Suddenly, bam, 270 votes isn't enough for Clinton or Trump to become president! The notion itself is ridiculous and should be left on the waste bin of politics.

 

Not that it hasn't happened before with the European constitution / Treaty of Lisbon.
The sovereign will of the people, what does that really mean though: 34.7% of the people voted to remain, 37.5% voted to leave, 27.8% did not vote.
Democracy kinda fails with big decisions and undecisive votes.

Qualified majority in politics, to shield some laws and policies from cronyism and ingroup bias, is one thing; on electoral processes, another entirely different. What do you propose? To vote it again and again until one gets 60-66.6% of the votes? It will never happen.

Those who dislike politics are punished by leaving it up to those who like it. There is nothing wrong with democracy here, just the sloth and idleness of some. As Bertolt Brecht says, the worst illiterate is the political illiterate.

I feel like this the talk of sore losers. Specially millenials who think they are more entitled to vote and have more enlightened opinions than older people because "muh future" and whatnot. I can't see anything else on this besides plain old ageism. Guess what? You could take a bullet to the forehead tomorrow and some of the elderly live another 30 years. One never knows...