Reply #71: You cannot rightly equate mob rule to... [View All]

...the use of national referendum -- they are not anything alike.

"It only brings about the oppression of minorities."

You seem to be assuming national referendum would be corrupted by the ruling elite corporate interests, which would be a concern, but is not a good reason do reject direct democracy any more than it is a valid reason to dismantle representative democracy. Would you not agree that our so called representative democracy is very much corrupted by corporate and other special interests?

Where did I equate Switzerland and the U.S.? I cited Switzerland as an example of a working democracy that successfully makes use of national referendum which we could study and learn from -- that's all. And you do not construct any argument for why national referendum cannot be made to work here due to our size and population. Please explain.