Re: When you find yourself singing along with the Sun... Archived Message
Posted by dovetailjoint on February 27, 2019, 2:25 pm, in reply to "When you find yourself singing along with the Sun..."
To be perfectly honest, I don't like referendums at all, because they're mostly a form of 'dumbing down' and way too much emotional crap smothers the arguments. Back in Germany we had them too, in the 1930's and that didn't turn out too well, did it? So now we don't have them anymore. Referendums give too much space to big media outlets and politial demagogues like Farrage and Johnson, who are exceptionally good at selling exceptionally bad narratives to an all too easily maipulated public. In theory I'd like to see lots more referendums on all sorts of issues, only this would undermine parliamentary democracy and lead towards even more chaos and disaster. I thouhgt we had a referendum about EU membership about forty years ago. I thought things were settled back then, once and for all. There was no need for another one. And one has to remember that it was only called because of internal difficulties inside the ruling Conservative Party. It had precious little to do with 'democracy' or the EU. That the left chooses to ignore these facts and support a Tory mess, just shows how degenerate and absurd what passes for the left really is. I'm with Jordan Peterson about that too.
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Message Thread:
- Corbyn signs his own death warrant - psingh February 26, 2019, 10:16 pm
- Read this, Ken, and learn something. - scrabb February 26, 2019, 10:59 pm
- Oh, not again nm - mack February 26, 2019, 11:00 pm
- Not until the fat lady sings me ol' china ... - Tomski February 27, 2019, 12:59 am
- We'll see what the voters think, won't we Kit? 'Many a slip' for prognosticators. NOM - Rhisiart Gwilym February 27, 2019, 6:29 am
- Re: We'll see what the voters think, won't we Kit? 'Many a slip' for prognosticators. NOM - dovetailjoint February 27, 2019, 8:23 am
- "People's Vote" - Gerard February 27, 2019, 11:48 am
- So do we have a third referendum after the second, dtj? And then another .... - scrabb February 27, 2019, 12:29 pm
- Re: So do we have a third referendum after the second, dtj? And then another .... - AlanG February 27, 2019, 1:32 pm
- When you find yourself singing along with the Sun... - Ken Waldron February 27, 2019, 1:34 pm
- Re: When you find yourself singing along with the Sun... - dovetailjoint February 27, 2019, 2:25 pm
- Re: So do we have a third referendum after the second, dtj? And then another .... - Gerard February 27, 2019, 2:24 pm
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